Inflorescences 5-9-flowered. Flowers: filament tube without yellow or white spot proximal to each anther; pollen sacs yellow with maroon speckles; connective maroon to black. 2n = 44.

Flowering late winter-spring. Dry slopes and flats in coastal scrub communities and mainly oak and conifer woodlands; of conservation concern; 0-800 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).

Variety insulare is confined mainly to low mountains from Monterey County to Santa Barbara County and on the Channel Islands. In northwestern Mexico, it is disjunct to the immediate coast and off-shore islands near Ensenada, and on Guadalupe Island; on the islands the leaves can be up to 5.5 cm wide.