Odontostomum hartwegii

Hartweg's doll's lily

Family: Tecophilaeaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Hartweg's doll's lily is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada foothills in clay soils, often on serpentine landscapes at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces white to pale yellow flowers with strongly veined petals that spread out and later become reflexed. Growing 12 to 50 centimeters tall with a slightly curved stem that branches and emerges from a small ovoid corm, it develops slender leaves reaching 10 to 30 centimeters in length with upper leaves progressively reduced. Its leaves emerge from a distinctive corm, with delicate white to pale yellow flowers featuring six stamens and a thread-like style. The plant produces obovoid seeds in a unique display characteristic of its rare lily relatives.

Habitat: Clay, often serpentine soils

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: < 600 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRI, CaR, n&ampc SNF.

California counties: Butte, Nevada, Shasta, Mariposa, Yuba, Tehama, Tuolumne, Calaveras, El Dorado, Napa, Sacramento, Placer, Stanislaus

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