#scoliopus

[pickleweed2]

California Fetid Adderstongue, Scoliopus bigelovii, flowering in the Redwood understory.

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California

[thelethalsilence]

Fetid adder's-tongue, aka slinkpod, aka Scoliopus bigelovii

California coastal mountains, 2025

[thelethalsilence]

utterly charmed by these

Scoliopus bigelovii among redwoods, 2024

[pickleweed2]

Scoliopus bigelovii, the California fetid adderstongue, an early blooming flower of the Lily family. Often found growing in Redwood/Douglas Fir/Tan Oak forest. It's main pollinator are fungus gnats, who are attracted to the flower's rotten meat smell.

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Albee Creek, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California

[fortunatehazelnut]

Saw my first native wildflower of the season :) Scoliopus bigelovii (California Fetid Adderstongue)

It's always such an early bloomer that I usually tend to see the flowers when they're crispy and dry in spring, so it's good to actually see one in flower!!

[friendsrpbg]

H20120223-3986--Scoliopus bigelovii--RPBG-1 by John Rusk Via Flickr: Scoliopus bigelovii—fetid adderstongue. "A neat woodland lily with two, broad, purple-mottled basal leaves and one to four leafless flowering stems. Both the leaves and flowering stems are 4-8 in. long. Each flowering stem bears a single, small, greenish flower with mottled and veined outer sepals and inner, wiry petals. The flowers have a carrion-like odor. After flowering, the erect stems begins to bend to the ground. By maturity, the capsule is laying on the ground and simply decays, releasing its seed. A peculiar little plant with 3-12 leafless, 3-sided stalks, each topped by 1 dull reddish-brown and green flower, growing between 2 basal leaves mottled with maroon patches."—Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network. Also shown is Oxalis oregana—redwood sorrel. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA..

[uswildflowers]

Scoliopus bigelovii