About Fritillaria striata Eastw.
Fritillaria striata Eastw. grows an erect stem that is 25 to 40 centimeters tall, which bears pairs of long oval-shaped leaves that are 6 to 7 centimeters long. Its nodding blooms are bell-shaped and fragrant, with six light pink tepals each marked with darker pink stripes, and the tepal tips roll backward. In the darker center of the flower, a greenish-yellow nectary sits surrounded by yellow anthers. This plant is endemic to California in the United States, and is only found in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills of Kern County and Tulare County, as well as east of the Tejon Hills in the Tehachapi Mountains foothills, on the Tejon Ranch in Kern County. It grows in adobe clay soils.
