Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description by the California Native Plant Society. Calochortus nudus is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common name naked mariposa [...]

Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description from the Flora of North America. Stems usually not branching, straight or flexuous, often scapelike, 0.5–3 dm. Leaves: basal 1–3 dm × 2–15 mm, [...]

Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description. Siskiyou mariposa lily is an herbaceous perennial with a single, basal leaf arising from a bulb.  The basal leaf can be up to 20 centimeters (7.9 [...]

Ethnobotany. A food for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description from the Oregon Department of Agricuture. Howell’s mariposa lily is a bulbous perennial, 2-4 dm tall, that bears a single large basal leaf [...]

Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples. Calochortus gunnisonii was a food for the following First Peoples: Keres, Cheyenne, Navajo Ramah. Among the Navajo Ramah, the juice of the leaves was applied to pimples; a decoction [...]

Ethnobotany. A food and a medicine for many Amerindian Peoples: the bulbs were eaten raw or roasted. Description by the California Native Plant Society. Calochortus leichtlinii is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the [...]