Calochortus tolmieiHook. & Arn.

Tolmie's pussy ears

WFO wfo-0000762823 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. a Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205800148
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. b Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202591555
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. c Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202591152
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. d Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202591359
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202591040
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. f Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201362312
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. g Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201992818
Calochortus tolmiei, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. h Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201362233

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Flowering n = 2,800 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,800 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 8 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 elegans Baker
  • Calochortus elegans var. lobbii Baker
  • Calochortus galei Peck
  • Calochortus glaucus Regel
  • Calochortus maweanus var. major Purdy
  • Calochortus maweanus var. roseus Purdy
  • Calochortus purdyi Eastw.
  • Calochortus purdyi Mast.

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.