Prosartes smithii

Largeflower fairybells

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Largeflower fairybells is a California native perennial found in western Northwest California and San Francisco Bay Area bioregions in moist, shady coastal and montane forests at elevations below 1,575 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces creamy white flowers with spreading tips 15 to 28 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 30 to 100 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive branching habit with 1 to 7 flowers per stem. Its leaves are 5 to 12 centimeters long, with margins that may have long spreading hairs that often fall away with age. The fruit is an orange, obovoid structure 10 to 15 millimeters long, typically containing more than three seeds.

Habitat: Moist, shady coastal, montane forest

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 1575 m

Bioregions: w NW, SnFrB

California counties: Marin, Alameda, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, San Mateo, Trinity, Monterey

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