Dichelostemma, was Depth and California bulbs
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:32:34 PST)

At 10:18 PM 11/9/2011, John Wickham wrote:

In going through a box of papers we just found an article in The Four
Seasons written by Glenn Keator about Dichelostemma. In his comments
about D. capitatum he writes: "It is important to note that this
species stands alone because of its early flowering, stoloniferous
offsets, epigeous germination, and two sets of fertile stamens, small
alternating with large. " It is also very wild spread, found from sea
level to 7000 ft (2133 m). It grows from Oregon to Baja California
and off shore Islands. Glen describes 17 different plant communities
it is found in and he doesn't include serpentine (we saw some dwarf
looking ones growing in such a habitat.) So it would seem for this
species that knowing the source of your seeds would be important for
successfully siting and growing them. I recommended you look at the wiki page:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
and look at Nhu's photos of the roots of this species and then click
show more to see variations from many different places.

Mary Sue