Padre’s shootingstar

Inflorescences (1-)5-16-flowered. Flowers: filament tube without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther; pollen sacs yellow; connective yellow. 2n = 44.

Flowering winter-spring. Dry or sometimes moist slopes and flats in coastal scrub communities, and in oak and/or conifer woodlands; of conservation concern; 0-700 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Variety clevelandii is confined in the flora area mainly to the low mountains of the Transverse and Peninsular ranges of western Los Angeles, Orange, western Riverside, and San Diego counties. In Baja California, it is in the mountains as far south as the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, and in widely scattered locations along the coast to near El Rosario.