#fritillaria
#FritillariaBiflora / #ChocolateLily. I’m in love.
But there’s bad news. These grow in Wright’s Field, in which the County of San Diego inexplicably wants to build a sports complex/skate park. It’s absolutely baffling and would be an ecological disaster for this irreplaceable and rapidly disappearing grassland habitat. There are other beautiful uncommon and rare species of plants there and it’s important to birds and wildlife as well. There are vernal pools (a habitat that has almost been completely destroyed in California) nearby too. There’s no demand for such a park in Alpine and no infrastructure to support it!
#SaveWrightsField #WrightsField #SanDiegoCountyParks #AlpineCA
#californianativeplants #sandiegowildflowers #californiawildflowers #fritillaria #fritillaries #lilies #liliaceae (at Alpine, California)
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Plant of the Day
Wednesday 13 April 2022
The delicate flowers of Fritillaria meleagrisvar.unicolorsubvar.alba (white flowered snake’s head fritillary) are flowering in this garden meadow. This is the white flowered form of the bulbous perennial Fritillaria meleagris which usually has bell-shaped purple flowers, the tepals tessellated with a checkerboard pattern.
Jill Raggett
