Gunnison's Mariposa Lily, Rocky Mountain Mariposa Lily, Calochortus gunnisonii 🤍

Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly, and these sweet beauties are also found fluttering through summer meadows 🤍 The species of mariposa lily found here along Colorado's Front Range is Gunnison's Mariposa, sharing a name with the Gunnison River, and the leader of a railroad expedition through the Black Canyon. She is also called sego, or seego (or sikoo), Shoshone for edible bulb; in Ute, si'go or siyoo. Her bulbs can be roasted or boiled, or dried, then ground and cooked into a soup or porridge 🤍 Her petals vary from white to purple, and her home is in the foothills and mountain meadows 🤍

This is a 5x7” giclee print of my original painting, Gunnison’s Mariposa Lily. It’s printed with archival ink on thick, textured cotton rag paper, signed on the back, packaged in a protective sleeve with backing board, and ready for a standard-size frame.

Archival prints are shipped in a flat envelope through USPS Priority Mail.