Calochortus uniflorus
Pink star-tulip, Pink Star-Tulip
Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Conservation status: CNPS 4.2
Pink star-tulip is a California native perennial ranked 4.2 by CNPS, found in northwestern California, the high Cascade Range, northern and central Coast Ranges, and San Francisco Bay Area in moist meadows at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white to pink flowers with distinctive purple spots above the nectary, with blossoms 15 to 28 millimeters long in bell-shaped arrangements. Growing with slender stems less than 5 centimeters tall, it emerges from a bulb and produces 1 to 3 linear cauline leaves that become progressively smaller toward the top of the plant. Its basal leaves are persistent and can reach 10 to 40 centimeters in length, with flowers typically arranged in a small umbel-like cluster of 1 to 5 erect blooms. The fruit is a nodding, narrowly winged elliptic capsule 15 to 25 millimeters long, containing light brown seeds with a distinctive net-like texture.
Habitat: Moist meadows
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: < 500 m
Bioregions: NW, CaRH, n&c CCo, SnFrB
California counties: Sonoma, Monterey, Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Trinity, Siskiyou, Colusa, Marin, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, Tehama, Alameda, Placer, San Mateo, Nevada, Yuba
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.