Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Muilla maritima is a species of flowering plant known by the common names sea muilla and common muilla. It is native to California and Baja California, where it grows in many types of habitat from the coast to the Mojave Desert and Sierra Nevada foothills and other inland mountains, in grassland, woodland, desert, and forest floras. It is a perennial plant growing from a corm and producing an erect flowering stem up to half a meter tall. The onionlike leaves at the base of the stem may be 60 centimeters long. The flowering stem bears an umbel-shaped array of many flowers on pedicels up to 5 centimeters long. Each flower has six petals which are green-tinged white in color with brownish midribs and no more than 6 millimeters in length. At the center of the flower are six erect stamens with blue, green, or purplish anthers.

Plant type

Perennial herb, Geophyte

Size

1 - 2 ft Tall

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Color

White, Green, Brown

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Propagation

For propagating by seed: No treatment.

Sunset Zones

3, 7, 14

Site type

Many habitats. Most often in grasslands or canyon bottoms, and often in serpentine, alkaline or granitic soils

Plant communities

Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland, Yellow Pine Forest