Fritillaria pluriflora

Adobe-lily

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Adobe-lily is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in northern California Interior Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and edges of the Sacramento Valley in adobe and serpentine soils of interior foothills at elevations below 900 meters. Flowering from February to April, this plant produces pink-purple to lavender flowers with rounded to acute tips, nodding gracefully and measuring 2 to 3.5 centimeters long. Growing with slender stems 15 to 45 centimeters tall, it emerges from a large bulb with impressive bulb scales. Its leaves are 3 to 10 in number, clustered near the ground, elliptic to obovate-oblong and measuring 6 to 15 centimeters long. Each flower features a distinctive lavender nectary extending about two-thirds the length of the perianth, creating an elegant and unusual appearance.

Habitat: Adobe, generally serpentine of interior foothills

Bloom period: Feb-Apr

Elevation: < 900 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, n SNF, edges of ScV

California counties: Butte, Glenn, Lake, Napa, Solano, Colusa, Yolo, Tehama, Mendocino, Santa Clara, Kern, Sacramento

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