Chlorogalum pomeridianum, the wavy-leafed soap plant, California soaproot, or Amole, is the most common and most widely distributed of the soap plants, soaproots or amoles, which make up the genus Chlorogalum of flowering plants.[1] It is occasionally known as the "wild potato", but given the plant's lack of either resemblance or relationship to the potato, this name is not recommended.
It is found in most of California from the coasts to the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and in the Klamath Mountains in southwestern Oregon, but not in either state's desert regions.[1] Wavy-leafed soap plant grows on rock bluffs, grasslands, chaparral, and in open woodlands.[1][2]
Chlorogalumpomeridianum, the wavy-leafed soap plant, California soaproot, or Amole, is the most common and most widely distributed of the soap plants...
Chlorogalum was not monophyletic. Five species are currently classified in the genus. All except the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant, Chlorogalumpomeridianum...
the coastal sage scrub flora. It resembles a smaller version of Chlorogalumpomeridianum, with wavy leaves and white flowers that open during the day. Hooveria...
Native American tribes traditionally used the soaproot species, Chlorogalumpomeridianum, which contains saponin, as a fish poison. They would pulverize...
wild flowers, such as Deer Weed (Acmispon glaber), Soap plant (Chlorogalumpomeridianum), and Chaparral checkerbloom (Sidalcea hickmanii). Morro Bay State...
virgata), as well as another soap plant species, wavyleaf soap plant (Chlorogalumpomeridianum). Camatta Canyon amole grows in dry, pebbly, red clay soils; though...
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