Calflora: Fritillaria liliacea

Fritillaria liliacea Lindley

fragrant fritillary

Fritillaria liliacea, a monocot, is a perennial herb (bulb) that is native to California and is endemic (limited) to California alone.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 1B.2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Coastal Prairie, Valley Grassland, Northern Coastal Scrub, wetland-riparian
Affinity to serpentine soil: 1.8 (weak indicator) [Safford et al 2005]
Wetlands:	Equally likely to occur in wetlands or non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]

Family:	LILIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Fritillaria found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93
PLANTS: accepted name:		Fritillaria agrestis
PLANTS: accepted name:		Fritillaria recurva

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 53 / 14 CCH Butte: 31 / 28 CCH Contra Costa: 52 / 15 CCH Colusa: 4 / 2 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 0 CCH Fresno: 6 / 6 CCH Glenn: 4 / 4 CCH Humboldt: 7 / 6 CCH Kern: 9 / 7 CCH Lake: 16 / 10 CCH Lassen: 1 / 1 CCH Mendocino: 19 / 16 CCH Merced: 1 / 1 CCH Monterey: 34 / 31 CCH Modoc: 3 / 3 CCH Mariposa: 4 / 2 CCH Marin: 28 / 19 CCH Napa: 19 / 12 CCH Nevada: 5 / 2 CCH Placer: 12 / 9 CCH Plumas: 14 / 8 CCH Sacramento: 8 / 7 CCH Santa Barbara: 4 / 4 CCH San Benito: 21 / 16 CCH Santa Clara: 11 / 9 CCH Santa Cruz: 2 / 1 CCH San Francisco: 15 / 13 CCH Shasta: 26 / 14 CCH Sierra: 1 / 1 CCH Siskiyou: 15 / 15 CCH San Luis Obispo: 13 / 11 CCH San Mateo: 41 / 32 CCH Solano: 15 / 4 CCH Sonoma: 43 / 23 CCH Stanislaus: 8 / 8 CCH Tehama: 19 / 19 CCH Trinity: 41 / 35 CCH Tulare: 4 / 3 CCH Tuolumne: 4 / 4 CCH Ventura: 7 / 7 CCH Yolo: 3 / 2 CCH Yuba: 6 / 6 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Fritillaria liliacea from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (FRRE)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database