Dwarf golden star

Leaves usually 1–2, 5–30 cm × 3–15 mm. Scape 5–10 cm, minutely scabrous. Flowers: tepals ascending at base, then gradually spreading, connate basally for ca. 1 mm, yellow with brownish purplish midvein, 7–11 mm; filaments parallel to style, dilated bases 2.5–4 mm, often smooth, connate into nectariferous cup; anthers 1.5–1.8 mm; ovary 2 mm; style 6 mm; pedicel 1–5 cm.

Flowering spring. Grasslands, chaparral edges, open mesas on ocean bluffs; of conservation concern; 0--100 m; Calif.

Bloomeria humilis is rare, known only from a single location on the California coast.