Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Toxicoscordion fontanum, common name Small-flower death camas is a rare plant species known only from serpentine marshes in California. It is found primarily in the Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to San Luis Obispo County, with an additional report of an isolated population in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Kern County east of Bakersfield. Toxicoscordion fontanum is a bulb-forming perennial herb. Bulbs are egg-shaped, up to 40 mm (1. 6 inches) long, not clumped together. Inflorescences are paniculate, sometimes with as many as 100 flowers. Tepals are cream-colored, up to 12 mm (0. 5 inches) long; filaments shorter than the tepals.

Plant type

Perennial herb

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Color

Cream

Bees
Butterflies

Pollinators supported

0 confirmed and 9 likely

  • Likely

  • Confirmed

Purple Miner Bee

Andrena prunorum

American Bumble Bee

Bombus pensylvanicus

European Drone Fly

Eristalis arbustorum

Black-footed Drone Fly

Eristalis hirta