Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Hastingsia alba is a species of flowering plant known by the common names white rushlily and white shoenolirion. It is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it grows in wet places such as bogs and mountain meadows. It grows from a black-coated bulb a few centimeters wide and produces erect stems 40 to 90 centimeters tall. There are several long, thin, bending leaves about the base of the plant and the stems are naked. The top of each stem is a dense, pointed flower cluster of many flowers, with smaller flower clusters branching off lower levels of the stem. Each flower is cream or greenish-white with six curly, lilylike petals. Each has six white stamens with large brown anthers. The flowers fall away to leave the fruits, which are green capsules containing black seeds.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

1 - 3 ft Tall

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Color

White, Green, Cream, Brown

Sun

Full Sun

Ease of care

Moderate

Soil drainage

Slow, Standing

Propagation

For propagating by seed: 3 mos. stratification.

Sunset Zones

1, 2, 4*, 5*, 6*, 7, 14, 15*, 16*, 17

Site type

Wet meadows, bogs, rocky seeps,

Plant communities

Mixed Evergreen Forest, Forest, Yellow Pine Forest, Wetland-Riparian