Asparagaceae

Snakelily

Dichelostemma × venustum (Greene) Hoover

Family: Asparagaceae
Genus: Dichelostemma

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Snakelily: Dichelostemma ×venustum. Taxonomists can't make up their minds how to treat this rose firecracker. D. venustum has been reduced to a footnote under D. ida-maia — Photo: John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

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English: Snakelily

Synonyms

Brevoortia venusta Greene
Brodiaea venusta (Greene) Greene

Characteristics

Growth habit: Forb/herb
Lifespan: Perennial
In the US and Canada: Lower 48 states: native

Photos

Photo: John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.