[Wikipedia] Distribution, Conservation: Fritillaria striata, the striped adobe lily, is an uncommon species of fritillary.[2][3][4] Distribution The plant is endemic to California, USA, where it is known only from the southern Sierra Nevada foothills in Kern County and Tulare County, and east of the Tejon Hills in the Tehachapi Mountains foothills, on the Tejon Ranch in Kern County.[5] It grows in adobe clay soils. Conservation The main threat to the plant is cattle grazing, wild pigs, and invasive species of grasses. Fritillaria striata is listed by the State of California as a threatened species,[3] and is on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California, listed as seriously endangered in California.[6] (link added by Mary Ann Machi)