fairy lantern

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fairy lantern - any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowersglobe lilyliliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuberCalochortus, genus Calochortus - large genus of western North American leafy-stemmed bulbous herbsCalochortus albus, white fairy lantern, white globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern CaliforniaCalochortus amabilis, golden fairy lantern, yellow globe lily - globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern CaliforniaCalochortus amoenus, rose globe lily - globe lily with deep rose-pink or purple egg-shaped flowers on flexuous stems; western slopes of Sierra Nevada in San Joaquin Valley