Brodiaea

This morning I had a little time before work to stop by the field I was taking pictures of last Wednesday. It was much earlier in the day than my last visit and just chilly enough to keep the bees dormant. Besides one huge, fat bumblebee who looked wooly enough to withstand a much colder morning, the only trace of life was the absent chirping of a few crickets. I found a little patch of Dichelostemma pulchella, which I have always known as Brodiaea. A more accessible common name, which I found, along with the scientific one in A Flower Watcher's Guide to Spring Blooming Wildflowers of the Antelope Valley is "wild hyacinth".