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Cecilia, looking like a vibrant mariposa in a purple tunic, her hair blossoming with sprigs of lavender, was fluttering about the kitchen looking confused and agitated.

There are native and nonnative plants all around the Bowl, but this area in particular is home to Plummer’s mariposa lily, a rare plant.

“Do any of you know what mariposa means?”

And the alkali mariposa lily and ash meadows blazing star are among the plants that grow only along this river.

Two endangered lilies — Green’s mariposa and Gentner’s fritillary — bloom purple and red each spring.