Blue Dick Seeds|Dipterostemon capitatus|California Native Plants|Native Wildflowers|Southwestern Plants|Native Plant Garden|Native seeds

Blue Dicks (Dipterostemon capitatus), also called Wild Hyacinth, Purplehead and Brodiaea (alternate spellings, Brodiea, Brodeia) occur in Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.

Dipterostemon capitatus is an herbaceous perennial, growing from an underground corm. It has 2 or 3 leaves, which are 4-16 inches long.

The flower cluster is head- or umbel-like, and dense. It usually contains 2 to 15 flowers, which have a blue, blue-purple, pink-purple, or white perianth. The flower tube is 0.1-0.5 inch and is narrowly cylindrical to bell-shaped. Flowers have six fertile stamens, deeply notched, lance-shaped, white, angled inward, slightly reflexed at tip, with outer filaments wider at the base. It has a twisted and fleshy peduncle, a set of membranous, petal-like stamen appendages around the anthers, and angular black seeds.

It reproduces from seed and vegetative means in the form of cormlets. The cormlets are attached to the parent corm by stolons and are sessile, produced in the axils of the old leaf bases on the mature corm. Plants thrive in open disturbed environments and are a common post-fire succession species in chaparral.

Packet will contain 30+ seeds.