''Dichelostemma'' is a genus of
North American plants closely related to the genus ''
Brodiaea
''Brodiaea'' , also known by the common name cluster-lilies, is a monocot genus of flowering plants.
One school of thought places the genus in the family , while another school of thought places it in the subfamily Brodiaeoideae of the family ...
'' and sometimes regarded as part of that group.
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''Dichelostemma'' is classified in the cluster-lily subfamily within the asparagus family. in the latest ]Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships disc ...
classification ( 2009). Older sources often placed it in the lily family; earlier versions of the APG classifications used the family Themidaceae
Brodiaeoideae are a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. They have been treated as a separate family, Themidaceae. They are native to Central America and western North America, from British Colum ...
.
The genus is native to the North America, especially in northern California
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, but also east to New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
and north to British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
and south into northwestern Mexico.[Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 328 ''Dichelostemma'' Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4: 469. 1843. ]
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These plants grow from perennial
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wid ...
corm
A corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).
The word ' ...
s that produce a raceme or umbel
In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) that spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs. The word was coined in botanical usage in the 1590s, from Latin ''umbella'' "p ...
-like inflorescence
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. The flowers are bell- or tube-shaped and produce capsules with black seeds. The name, from the Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
for "toothed crown", refers to the stamen appendages.
Diversity
;Species[The Plant List search for Dichelostemma]
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''Dichelostemma capitatum'' (Benth.) Alph.Wood – blue dicks – has been moved to '' Dipterostemon capitatus''.
References
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Asparagaceae genera
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the Western United States
Flora of Western Canada
Taxa named by Carl Sigismund Kunth
Garden plants of North America