Hastingsia alba

Reed lily

Family: Agavaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Reed lily is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in wet meadows, bogs, and rocky seeps at elevations of 500 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white to pale yellow flowers in dense clusters with 2 to 3 branches. Growing with a bulb 26 to 56 millimeters long and upright stems, it forms compact clumps in moist habitats. Its flowers feature distinctive perianth parts that elongate as the anthers mature, with outer segments about 1 millimeter wide and inner segments approximately 2 millimeters wide. The fruit is an oblong capsule 6 to 9 millimeters long.

Habitat: Wet meadows, bogs, rocky seeps

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 500-2300 m

Bioregions: NW, CaR, n SNH

California counties: Siskiyou, Del Norte, Plumas, Butte, Lake, Humboldt, Shasta, Trinity, Mendocino, Nevada, Sierra, Tehama, Lassen, Yuba, San Diego

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