Golden Ear Drops Seeds|Ehrendorferia chrysantha|California Native Plants|Southwestern Wildflowers|Native Seeds|Rare Seeds|Native Wildflowers

Ehrendorferia chrysantha (syn. Dicentra chrysantha) is a species of flowering plant in the Fumariaceae, a family of showy wildflowers sometimes included in the Papaveraceae, the poppies. Its common name is golden eardrops. This plant is native to California and Baja California, where it lives in dry, brushy areas and thrives on periodic chaparral wildfire. This is a somewhat bushy taprooted perennial herb which may reach 1.5 meters in height. It has many tall, smooth stems with long waxy pale leaves which are divided into many lobes and leaflets. Atop each branch of each stem is a panicle of bright yellow aromatic flowers. Each flower has curving, pointed outer petals sculpted outward from the center of the flower, which is covered by a ridge made up of the inner petals. The fruit is a capsule one or two centimeters long

For propagating by seed: Fire treatment. Soaking in 400 ppm GA3 24 hrs. may give better germination (Betty Atwater, personal communication 1981).