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Bloomeria clevelandii
Also called San Diego Goldenstar
San Diego Golden Star is a rare, small bulbous perennial from coastal scrub and grassland in San Diego County and northern Baja California, grown for its clusters of yellow flowers. It needs a sunny, dry-summer spot with well-drained soil and is best kept outdoors.
Bloomeria clevelandii is a rare species of flowering plant that is known by the common name San Diego goldenstar. It is native to a strip of scrub and coastal grassland in San Diego County, California, and adjacent Baja California. Genetic analysis of several morphologically similar genera shows that this species, which was named Muilla clevelandii for several decades, is not very closely related to the other members of Muilla and is moved back to Bloomeria.
Its specific epithet clevelandii honors 19th-century San Diego-based plant collector and lawyer Daniel Cleveland.
Bloomeria crocea var. aurea · Common goldenstar · Dwarf goldenstar · Goldenstar
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bloomeria clevelandii 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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
