Bloomeria crocea var. montana
Madroño 12: 23. 1953.
Common names: Mountain golden star inland golden star
Endemic
Basionym: Bloomeria montana Greene Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 281. 1885
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 337.
Flowers: tepals yellow, 11–13 mm; basal filament appendages 2-cuspidate, aristate, cusps 3–3.5 mm, ca. 1/2 length of filaments, apex attenuate. 2n = 18.
Phenology: Flowering spring (Apr–Jun).
Habitat: Chaparral, yellow pine forests
Elevation: 300–1000 m
Discussion
Variety montana is restricted to the southern Coast Ranges and the Tehachapi Mountains.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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basifixed +
articulate +
attenuate +
2-cuspidate +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
articulate +
connate +
dilated +
keeled +
narrow +
absent +
2;4 +
solid +
fibrous-coated +
arising +
1/2 length of filaments +
Calif. +
fleshy +
2-cuspidate +
arising +
aristate +
parallel +
slender +
single +
loculicidal +
simple +
persistent +
brown +
sessile +
superior +
anatropous +
several +
raylike +
erect +
showy +
3-carpellate +
Madroño +
1953 +
scabrous +
cylindrical +
slender +
rigid +
wind-distributed +
angular +
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wrinkled +
subovoid +
Endemic +
slightly shorter +
epitepalous +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
3-lobed +
splitting +
persistent +
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Bloomeria crocea var. montana +
Bloomeria crocea +
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oblong-linear +
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persistent +
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