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- C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Yellow Mariposa Lily: Calochortus luteus, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
- Alfred Louis Kroeber. 1905. Shoshonean dialects of California, Volume 4, 196 pages
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