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Calochortus macrocarpus

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Authors: Douglas  

Botanical Description

Height 20-40cm. Stem erect, unbranched, often with bulbils. Flowers one to three, erect, purple with a medium green stripe and sometimes with a transverse band of purple above each gland, bearded above the gland which is slightly depressed, triangular, densely hairy. South British Columbia to north-eastern California east of the Cascades on dry hillsides.