Dodecatheon clevelandii
“Padre's Shooting Star”

What a rare thing! VERY SELDOM will we ever have this lovely California native, & boy does it take a long time to grow. Our best looking crop took three years to get to blooming size, & even then the plants were slight, but wow! Were they just to die for. A CLAY TOLERANT species, I would be very careful where you plant this hard to find wildflower – it needs to be bone dry in Summer, & it goes completely dormant during this time, but it returns again with the rains. Blooming stems reach 1', with many flowers to a stem – each delicate & enchanting – twisted recurved tepals of mauve to pink, above black, downward pointing stamens. Foliage rests low to the ground in a 4” rosette.

Claire Woods
Propagator