''Dichelostemma'' is a genus of North American plants closely related to the genus ''Brodiaea'' and sometimes regarded as part of that group.
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''Dichelostemma'' is classified in the Brodiaeoideae, cluster-lily subfamily within the Asparagaceae, asparagus family. in the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (APG III system, 2009). Older sources often placed it in the Liliaceae, lily family; earlier versions of the APG classifications used the family Themidaceae.
The genus is native to the North America, especially in northern California, but also east to New Mexico and north to British Columbia and south into northwestern Mexico.][Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 328 ''Dichelostemma'' Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4: 469. 1843. ]
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These plants grow from perennial plant, perennial corms that produce a raceme or umbel-like inflorescence. The flowers are bell- or tube-shaped and produce capsules with black seeds. The name, from the Greek language, Greek for "toothed crown", refers to the stamen appendages.
Diversity
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''Dichelostemma capitatum'' (Benth.) Alph.Wood – blue dicks – has been moved to ''Dipterostemon, Dipterostemon capitatus''.
References
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Dichelostemma,
Asparagaceae genera
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the Western United States
Flora of Western Canada
Taxa named by Carl Sigismund Kunth
Garden plants of North America