Fritillaria falcata
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Fritillaria falcata is a species of fritillary known by the common name talus fritillary. This rare wildflower is endemic to the serpentine talus of the mountains in and around the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It grows a short stem about 10 to 20 centimeters tall surrounded by two to six flat, sickle-shaped leaves up to about 8 centimeters in length. The erect, star-shaped flower has six tepals one to two centimeters long which are greenish outside and yellow mottled with purple-brown inside. This is sometimes considered a subspecies of Fritillaria atropurpurea.
