Brown bells
Dipcadi serotinum
Family · Asparagaceae · Harmless
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The bulb plant with brownish orange flowers hanging from one side of the stem, a colour so unshowy that almost nobody notices. It is one of the few flowers in our flora that bets on not being seen.
Scrubland · Fields and pasture · Uplands · Dunes and sand
Also known asbrown dipcadi
How to tell it
Tubular brownish orange or reddish flowers hanging on one side only of a bare stem. Narrow channelled leaves rising from the bulb, often already dry by the time the flower opens.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
It counts as an exercise in observation: it is a plant you learn to see, and afterwards it is everywhere.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
Sources
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