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|accepted_name=Calochortus venustus
|accepted_authority=Douglas ex Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser.
|place=2, 1: 412, plate 15, fig. 3. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mariposa venusta
|authority=(Douglas ex Bentham) Hoover
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Calochortus;Calochortus venustus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Calochortus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Calochortus venustus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 122, 132
|treatment_page=page 134
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>bulbose; bulb coat membranous. <b>Stems</b> usually branching, 1–6 dm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. <b>Inflorescences</b> subumbellate, 1–6(–10)-flowered; bracts 2–8 cm. <b>Flowers</b> erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, apex recurved; petals white to brightly or deeply yellow, purple, or dark red, with dark red median blotch, often with second paler distal blotch, obovate or cuneate to clawed, rounded, 3–5 cm, with scattered proximal hairs, apex retuse to obtuse; glands in lower middle of petal, ± square, sometimes ovate, not depressed, covered with short, orange to red-purple hairs; filaments usually equaling anthers; anthers linear-lanceolate to oblong. <b>Capsules</b> erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. <b>Seeds</b> light beige, ± flat, 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest
|elevation=300–2700 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Flower color and pattern are very showy and exceedingly variable in <i>Calochortus venustus</i>.</p>
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name=Calochortus venustus
|author=
|authority=Douglas ex Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Mariposa venusta
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest
|elevation=300–2700 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser.
|publication year=1835
|special status=
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|genus=Calochortus
|species=Calochortus venustus
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