Blooms: May - June
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: West of the Cascades, southern Washington to California
Habitat: Open forests, lowland valleys to subalpine

Species Description:

General: Perennial herb from a deep-seated bulb, the stem 0.5-3 dm. tall, usually branched, slender and flexuous.
Leaves: Basal leaf flat, 1-4 dm. long and 2-30 mm. broad, much longer than the stem; cauline leaf bract-like, attached at the stem branch.
Flowers: Umbel usually 1-5 flowered; flowers large, white, cream-colored, or tinged with purple or rose, erect or spreading on slender pedicels which become strongly deflexed in fruit; sepals 3, shorter than the petals, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, glabrous; petals 3, obovate with a wedge-like base, densely bearded on the inner face with long, slender hairs; gland transverse, arched upward, naked, bordered below with a broad, short-fringed membrane and above with one or more series of short, thick processes; stamens 6, style short, stigma trifid and persistent.
Fruits: Capsule elliptic, 3-winged, nodding.

Calochortus tolmiei Hook. & Arn.

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Calochortus tolmiei specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Calochortus tolmiei specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Calochortus tolmiei treatment.

E-Flora BC: Calochortus tolmiei atlas page.

CalPhotos: Calochortus tolmiei images.

USDA Plants Database: Calochortus tolmiei.