T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

Purplehead (a name also applied to the species); Typical Beautiful Blue Dicks; Typical Beautiful Blue-dicks; Typical BeautifulBluedicks; Typical Blue-dicks California-hyacinth; Typical Capitate Blue Dicks; Typical Capitate Blue-dicks (a name alsoapplied to the genus Dichelostemma); Typical Capitate Bluedicks; Typical Chester Lily; Typical Common Blue Dick; TypicalCommon Blue Dicks; Typical Common Blue-dick; Typical Common Blue-dicks; Typical Common Bluedicks; Typical CommonBrodiaea; Typical Common Saitas; Typical Covenna; Typical Desert Hyacinth Blue Dicks; Typical Desert Hyacinth Blue-dicks;Typical Desert Hyacinth Bluedicks; Typical Hyacinth Blue Dicks; Typical Hyacinth Blue-dicks; Typical Hyacinth Bluedicks;Typical Papago Lily; Typical Vernal Pool Bluedicks; Typical Wild Hyacinth Blue Dicks; Typical Wild Hyacinth Blue-dicks;Typical Wild Hyacinth Bluedicks (a name also applied to the species); Wild Hyacinth (a name also applied to the species andother species). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial forb/herb (4 to 40 inches in height); the leaves are dark green; the flowersmay be light blue, blue, dark blue, blue-purple, bluish-purple, lavender, dark lavender, pink, pinkish-purple, pale purple, purple,dark purple, purple-blue, violet or white; flowering generally takes place between early February and early June (additionalrecords: two for late June, one for mid-July, one for late August; flowering beginning as early as December and ending as late asJuly has been reported). HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from mountains; mountainsides; rockymesas; gravelly plateaus; along canyon rims; canyons; canyon walls; gravelly-sandy canyon bottoms; talus; sandy pockets of soilon rocky banks; bluffs; rocky ridges; ridgetops; meadows; rocky foothills; cobbly-sandy-loamy hills; rocky hilltops; bouldery,rocky, rocky-sandy, gravelly-clayey-loamy and sandy hillsides; bouldery, rocky, cobbly-sandy-loamy, gravelly, gravelly-sandyclayey-loamy,sandy and sandy-loamy slopes; bajadas; bouldery and rocky outcrops; amongst boulders and rocks; rocky banks;rocky, rocky-clayey-loamy, gravelly, sandy and sandy-loamy flats; valley floors; in gravelly roadbeds; bouldery roadcuts; alongrocky, rocky-clayey, stony-clayey and sandy roadsides; draws; gravelly streambeds; creekbeds; along and in stony-gravelly andsandy washes; depressions; (sandy) banks of rivers; sandy benches; sandy terraces; riparian areas; waste places, and disturbedareas growing in dry (one record for a wet sandy wash) desert pavement; bouldery, rocky, rocky-sandy, stony-gravelly, gravelly,gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; rocky-clayey loam, cobbly-sandy loam, gravelly-sandy-clayey loam, gravelly-clayey loam,sandy loam and loam ground; rocky clay, stony clay and clay ground, and silty ground, occurring from sea level to 9,800 feet inelevation in the forest, woodland, scrub, grassland and desertscrub ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be anattractive component of a restored native habitat. Dichelostemma capitatum subsp. capitatum is native to southwest-central andsouthern North America. *5, 6, 16 (recorded as Dichelostemma pulchellum (Salisb.) Heller), 28 (recorded as Dichelostemmapulchellum, color photograph 680), 43 (081609), 44 (100311), 46 (recorded as Dichelostemma pulchellum (Salisb.) Heller, Page182), 63 (081609 - color presentation), 85 (100311 - color presentation), 89 (reported as being a perennial herb located onTumamoc Hill, recorded as Brodiea capitata Benth.), 115 (color presentation of the species), 124 (100311 - no record of genus,species), 140 (Page 306 - recorded as Dichelostemma pulchellum (Salisbury) Heller, placed in the Themidaceae)*Dichelostemma capitatum (G. Bentham) A. Wood subsp. pauciflorum (J. Torrey) G. Keator: BluedicksSYNONYMY: Brodiaea pulchella (R.A. Salisbury) E.L. Greene var. pauciflora (J. Torrey) C.V. Morton,Dichelostemma pulchellum (R.A. Salisbury) A.A. Heller var. pauciflorum (J. Torrey) R.F. Hoover. COMMON NAMES: BlueDicks (a name also applied to the species and genus Dichelostemma); Bluedicks (a name also applied to the species and genusDichelostemma); Brodiaea (a name also applied to the species); Covena (a name also applied to the species); Covenna (a namealso applied to the species); Coveria (a name also applied to the species); Crow Poison (a name also applied to the species andother species); Desert Blue-dicks (a name also applied to the species); Desert Hyacinth (a name also applied to the species andother species); Few Flower Blue Dicks; Few Flowered Blue Dicks; Few-flower Blue Dicks; Few-flowered Blue Dicks; FewflowerBlue-dicks; Few-flowered Blue-dicks; Few-flowered Bluedicks; Few-flowered Covena; Fewflowered Blue Dicks; Fool’sOnion (a name also applied to other species); Fool’s-onion (a name also applied to other species); Grass Nuts (a name alsoapplied to the species and other species); Grass-nuts (a name also applied to the species and other species); Hahd (a name alsoapplied to the species, Pima); Indian Hyacinth (not recommended, a name also applied to the species); Papago Lily (a name alsoapplied to the species); Purplehead (a name also applied to the species); Wild Hyacinth (a name also applied to the species andother species). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial forb/herb (4 to 30 inches in height); the leaves are dark green; the flowersmay be pale blue, blue, blue-lavender-purple, blue-purple, bluish-lavender, lavender, pink, pink-purple, purple or white;flowering generally takes place between late January and mid-June (additional records: one record for early January, one recordfor mid-July, one record for mid-September and one record for early November). HABITAT: Within the range of this species ithas been reported from rocky mountains; rocky mountainsides; gravelly and sandy mesas; plateaus; along rocky canyons; rockycanyon bottoms; buttes; gravelly ridges; rocky ridgetops; foothills; rocky hills; sandy hilltops; rocky, gravelly hillsides; rocky andsandy slopes; rocky-sandy alluvial fans; bajadas; rocky outcrops; amongst rocks; prairies; plains; gravelly, gravelly-loamy andsandy flats; basins; sandy valley floors; along roadsides; rocky arroyos; along draws; gulches; ravines; along streams; siltycreekbeds; rivers; riverbeds; along and in rocky and sandy washes; sandy beaches; gravelly terraces; sandy lowlands; ditches;around stock tanks; riparian areas, and disturbed areas growing in dry desert pavement; rocky, rocky-sandy, cindery, gravelly andsandy ground; cobbly-silty loam, gravelly loam and sandy loam ground; rocky clay, stony clay and clay ground, and silty ground,occurring from 900 to 8,600 feet in elevation in the forest, woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecologicalformations. NOTES: This plant may be an attractive component of a restored native habitat, the flowers are reported to befragrant. Dichelostemma capitatum subsp. pauciflorum is native to southwest-central and southern North America. *5, 6, 15, 28(recorded as Dichelostemma pulchellum, color photograph 680), 43 (081609), 44 (100311), 46 (recorded as Dichelostemmapulchellum (Salisb.) Heller var. pauciflorum (Torr.) Hoover, Page 182), 58, 63 (081609 - color presentation), 77 (recorded asDichelostemma pulchellum (Salisb.) Heller, color photographs #56 and #103), 85 (100411 - color presentation), 86 (note,26