Calochortus amabilisPurdy

Diogenes' lantern

WFO wfo-0000762658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. a Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205127783
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. b Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200894262
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. c Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200894459
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. d Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200888644
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. e Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200894442
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Brook
fig. f Brook, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198276271
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. g Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196923976
Calochortus amabilis, photographed by Alex
fig. h Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198775453

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,227 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,227 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calochortus pulchellus var. amabilis (Purdy) Jeps.
  • Calochortus pulchellus var. maculosus S.Watson ex Purdy

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.