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blue dicks
Dipterostemon capitatus
Dichelostemma capitatum (syn. D. pulchellum), known by the common names blue dicks, purplehead and brodiaea (alternately spelled brodiea and brodeia), is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Western United States (particularly Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico) and northwest Mexico.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1196784.