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Bloomeria aurea
Also called Common Goldenstar
Golden stars is a California native bulb (corm) in the Asparagus family, grown for its clusters of bright orange-yellow flowers in late spring. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and a dry summer rest.
Bloomeria crocea var. aurea, with the common name golden stars, is a variety of Bloomeria that is endemic to California. When blooming in late spring, its bright colors are distinctive.
Bloomeria crocea var. aurea grows in dry flats and hillsides, and grassy slopes and ridges often in heavy soils and especially in foothill woods, up to 1500 meters in elevation. Golden stars grow in the coastal sage scrub, chaparral, valley grassland and oak woodland plant communities from Baja California in Mexico, to Santa Barbara and Kern Counties in central California.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bloomeria crocea var. aurea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
