globe lily

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globe lily - any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers

fairy lantern

liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber

Calochortus, genus Calochortus - large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbs

Calochortus albus, white fairy lantern, white globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California

Calochortus amabilis, golden fairy lantern, yellow globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California

Calochortus amoenus, rose globe lily - globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley