Dichelostemma multiflorum

Wild hyacinth, Wild Hyacinth

Family: Themidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Wild hyacinth is a California native perennial found in northwestern and northern Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and Modoc Plateau in foothill grasslands, open woodlands, and scrub at elevations below 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pink to blue-purple flowers in dense umbel-like clusters with 6 to 35 erect blossoms, each featuring a cylindric perianth tube and spreading lobes. Growing with tall scapes 20 to 90 centimeters high and scabrous texture, it emerges from a cluster of 3 to 4 glaucous leaves reaching 30 to 85 centimeters long. Its leaves are unkeeled and distinctive, with an unusual white or pale purple crown that arches inward toward the anthers. The flower's pedicels are 3 to 15 millimeters long, adorned with ovate bracts 7 to 12 millimeters in length and streaked with purple.

Habitat: Foothill grassland, open woodland, scrub

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 2000 m

Bioregions: NW, n&ampc SN, ScV, SnFrB (uncommon), MP

California counties: Amador, Plumas, Santa Clara, Shasta, Butte, Placer, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, Mendocino, Tuolumne, Lassen, Calaveras, El Dorado, Modoc, Nevada, Sierra, Sacramento, Yuba, Humboldt, Alpine, Mono, Sutter, Mariposa, Glenn, Solano, San Joaquin, Sonoma, San Mateo, Yolo, Napa, Lake, Monterey, Santa Cruz

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