Fremont's Star Lily
Zigadenus fremontii
Fremont's star lily opens early clusters of creamy star-shaped flowers from a bulb on California's grassy and rocky slopes. Handsome in spring but, as a death camas, toxic to people and livestock.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- February, March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- CA, OR