Mariposa Lily

Special thanks to Brooke for suggesting today’s episode topic, Mariposa Lilies. Also, “mariposa” and “lily” have ceased to sound like words to me.

Music by James Milor from Pixabay

Information provided by:

• https://smmtc.org/plantofthemonth/Mariposa_Lily.php


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calochortus


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_soil

Butterfly Mariposa Lily

• Phylogeography and population genetics reveal ring species patterns in a highly polymorphic California lily by Adriana I. Hernández, Jacob B. Landis, & Chelsea D. Specht (2022) [Abstract] https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14313


• “Plant Guide: Mariposa Lily” from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA, & National Plant Data Center


• https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/calochortus_venustus.shtml


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calochortus_venustus

Catalina Mariposa Lily

• https://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/plants/Liliaceae/Calochortus%20catalinae.htm


• https://smmtc.org/plantofthemonth/Catalina_Mariposa_Lily.php


• https://theodorepayne.org/nativeplantdatabase/index.php?title=Calochortus_catalinae

Plummer’s Mariposa Lily

• https://messengermountainnews.com/the-rare-plummers-mariposa-lily/


• https://lpfw.org/our-region/wildlife/mariposa-lily/


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calochortus_plummerae


• Causes and correlates of interannual variation in flowering of Calochortus plummerae (Liliaceae) by Kimberlyn Williams, Erica Burck, & Cesar L. Garcia (2021) https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-68.4.360