Dear All: I am growing most of the species mentioned by Mary Sue, but I also am fortunate enough to have B. kinkiensis, a rare endemic to San Clemente Island off the southern California coast (another rare San Clemente member of the Themidaceae is Triteleia clementina). I am somewhat surprised to note that Jepson does not mention the color of the staminodes on this species, since they are not white but purple (B. jolonensis also has purple staminodes). "Bulbs of North America" describes it as similar to B. filifolia, but it is much larger flowered, and generally more attractive. So far, this has proven easy to grow, but I haven't had it long enough to know how well it increases vegetatively. Diana