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Cultivation:
Not an easy plant. Bulb frame in gritty soil,
kept dry in summer
Botanical
Description:
Bulb: Of 2 - 4 scales, producing many bulblets (rice grains)
Stem: 5 - 30cm
Leaves: 2 - 7, linear to lanceolate, grooved
Flowers: 1 to several conical bells, yellow to orange-yellow
Segments: 1 - 2.5cm long
Nectaries: Small, round, at the base of the bell
Style: 8mm, slender, entire
Capsule: Not winged
Flowering time: III - VI
Habitat: Subalpine slopes and screes, sandy, stony soil
by late snow patches, 400 - 2000m
Distribution: Western North America, British Colombia to
New Mexico, California, Wyoming
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