Brodiaea filifolia and Dipterostemon capitatus Bulb Mix

Brodiaea filifolia

18″ tall purple flower heads. Variable color. Rare bulb native to Southern California (Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties). Grows in vernal floodplains and grasslands that are currently threatened by residential development. Federally listed threatened species and endangered species on the state level. Nursery grown at Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano, CA. These bulbs were originally collected under an applicable permit.  This plant should not be planted in the wild or used for restoration of natural habitat, as it could harm naturally occurring populations.

Dipterostemon capitatus

The flower cluster is head- or umbel-like, and dense. It usually contains 2 to 15 flowers, which have a blue, blue-purple, pink-purple, or white perianth. The flower tube is 0.1-0.5 inch and is narrowly cylindrical to bell-shaped. Flowers have six fertile stamens, deeply notched, lance-shaped, white, angled inward, slightly reflexed at tip, with outer filaments wider at the base. It has a twisted and fleshy peduncle, a set of membranous, petal-like stamen appendages around the anthers, and angular black seeds.