Jane, In my experience, populations of Calochortus amabilis plants containing many individuals displaying brick red markings on their tepals are extremely common in the Inner North Coast Range north of San Francisco across multiple counties (see attached photos). There are probably populations without any markings but I don't remember the last time I encountered one. Any chance of seeing a picture of your putative hybrid in flower? It sounds very interesting. Nathan At 10:33 AM 4/28/2018, you wrote: >Calochortus amabilis and several other early species are flowering >in my bulb house now. Beside the several plants of C. amabilis is >what appears to be a self-sown seedling of unusual appearance. While >C. amabilis is bright yellow and usually without purple markings at >the base of the tepals, the seedling is pale yellow with a cloudy >lavender zone at the bases. It's also somewhat hairy. Nearby grow >yellow Calochortus monophyllus, which is also in flower now and has >distinct dark markings, and white Calochortus albus just starting to >open. I assumed the new flower was a hybrid of C. amabilis x >monophyllus, given its hairiness, but I don't know why it would be >paler than either parent. Mary Gerritsen, in her excellent book >"Calochortus: Mariposa lilies and their relatives," notes that C. >monophyllus has a natural hybrid with C. albus, even though the two >are in different botanical sections (monophyllus in Eleganti, albus >in Pulchelli; amabilis is in Pulchelli). Thus, it may be C. >monophyllus x albus, despite the plant's proximity to C. amabilis >and the close resemblance of the two in height, leaf and scape (C. >albus is very tall). Calochortus seeds are easily dispersed when one >collects the capsules, and the wind blows them around. > >Has any other grower seen such a Calochortus? Do you know what the >parents are? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: C amabilis one.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 2927852 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: C amabilis two.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 845412 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…