I seem to have some hybrids among California
Fritillaria species raised
from home-grown seed. I would post pictures of them
on the wiki if I knew
how to sign in, but I have not tried to post
anything since it changed, and
apparently I need a password which I do not know, or
else I don't know
exactly how to enter my user name.

Anyway, I apologize if anyone has grown plants from
my garden seeds of
Fritillaria purdyi and/or Fritillaria biflora, and
now has seedlings in
flower that don't look like what they are supposed
to be. It appears that
both groups of plants produced at least a few hybrid
seeds. The one with F.
purdyi as a seed parent is quite large, flowering
probably 2 years before
the other seedlings in its group, with 10 flowers on
a stout stem --
impressive! -- but the flowers have a greenish
ground color rather than the
creamy white of F. purdyi, though they are marked
like that species. The
ones with F. biflora as a seed parent are similar,
but smaller, with only 2
or 3 flowers per stem on first flowering; they have
typical purdyi
checkering rather than the "tips and stripes" of
biflora. Some apparently
pure biflora seedlings are flowering in the same
group.

I will search around and see if I can find out how
to access the wiki
during the next few days, to show these interesting
plants. Interesting but
disappointing to some, no doubt, because biflora is
dead common and purdyi
is much sought after.

Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon

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