Chlorogalum pomeridianum

Amole

Family: Agavaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Amole is a California native perennial found in coastal and interior regions in grasslands, oak woodlands, and chaparral at elevations from sea level to 1,200 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces white flowers with green or purple midveins, 15 to 25 millimeters long, opening in the late afternoon. Growing with tall, much-branched flowering stalks 30 to 250 centimeters high emerging from a small underground bulb, it develops slender stems with delicate branching. Its long leaves are 20 to 70 centimeters in length, 6 to 25 millimeters wide, with distinctively wavy margins that undulate along the leaf edge. The fruit is a small spherical capsule 5 to 7 millimeters long, containing the plant's seeds.

California counties: Los Angeles, Tulare, Riverside, Ventura, San Bernardino, Orange, Placer, Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Alameda, Contra Costa, Madera, Sonoma, Kern, Colusa, El Dorado, San Mateo, Amador, Calaveras, Napa, Siskiyou, Solano, Mariposa, Sutter, Butte, Fresno, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Nevada, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Tuolumne, Glenn, Tehama, Trinity, Del Norte, Yolo, Sacramento, Stanislaus

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