The rounded flower petals are variable in color from cream to light yellow or tan to dark purple to red-brown with yellow hairs often less dense in a band around the petal margin.  The anthers are rounded or pointed.  Woods End Wilderness Preserve, Laguna Beach, Orange County, CA. 06-02-09. © Peter J. Bryant

Intermediate Weed's Mariposa Lily

Calochortus weedii var. intermedius

Uncommon on dry, rocky slopes "especially near sandstone cliffs, in chaparral and coastal sage scrub; Chino Hills, Santa Ana Cyn., San Joaquin Hills, mountain foothills, and northern Santa Ana Mountains".  Can be more common following fire (Roberts). This variant occurs at elevations up to 2000 ft. Flowering: June and July (JM2).

California Native Plant Society  List 1B.2, species that are rare throughout their range and occur primarily in California, moderately threatened. 

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