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Fragrant fritillary

Fritillaria liliacea

Fragrant fritillary
Photo: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
W. California
Climate
temperate

About

Fritillaria liliacea, the fragrant fritillary, is a threatened bulbous herbaceous perennial plant in the lily family Liliaceae. It is native to the region surrounding San Francisco Bay in California, USA.

Where it grows

The range of this wildflower is over parts of southwestern Northern California, United States, especially Solano and Sonoma counties and at coastal locations south to Monterey County; occurrence is typically in open hilly grasslands at altitudes less than 200 meters in elevation.

Other Fritillaria plants

Fritillaria acmopetala · Checker lily · Stinkbells · Fritillaria alburyana · Fritillaria anhuiensis · Fritillaria assyriaca · Spotted fritillary · Chocolate lily · Chocolate lily · Greenhorn fritillary · Kamchatka fritillary · Fritillaria chitralensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fritillaria liliacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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