Calochortus clavatus

Club haired mariposa

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Club haired mariposa is a California native perennial found in foothill woodland and grassland habitats at elevations of 300 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces yellow flowers with dark banding and striking club-shaped hairs near the nectary, each bloom 30 to 50 millimeters wide with lance-ovate sepals marked red-brown at the base. Growing with coarse, often zigzag stems 20 to 100 centimeters tall that emerge from a bulb, it develops distinctive bulblets during its growth cycle. Its basal leaves are linear, deeply channeled, and 10 to 20 centimeters long, progressively reducing in size up the stem. The fruit is an erect, narrowly lanceolate capsule 6 to 9 centimeters long, containing approximately flat, tan seeds.

California counties: Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Fresno, Kern, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, Merced, Stanislaus, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Placer

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.