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Bloomeria crocea (common goldenstar)

Synonyms: Allium croceum (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Bloomeria crocea, also known as Goldenstar, is a geophyte from southern California and northern Baja California. It is found along hillsides, in grassland and chaparral edges, and in dry flats.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Bulb
Usage [1]  The bulbs can be rubbed on metate into an adhesive and spread on seed gathering baskets to close the interstices; No explanation is given of what metate is. There is a bamboo plant with this common name, but it is not native to America.
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [1]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
San Dimas Biosphere Reserve 17161 California, United States  

Predators

Paragus haemorrhous[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0