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Dichelostemma congestum (ookow)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Dichelostemma capitatum (syn. D. pulchellum), called blue dicks, purplehead and brodiaea (alternate spellings, brodiea, brodeia) occur in Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Corm
Usage [2]  The corms have been rubbed on metate into an adhesive and then spread on baskets to close the interstices and prevent small seeds falling through the gaps;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Battus philenor (pipevine swallowtail)[4]
Gnophaela latipennis[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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