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Erythronium elegans

elegant fawn-lily

glacier-lily

Leaves

6–15 cm;

blades ovate-lanceolate, not mottled or slightly mottled with brown or white;

margins usually wavy.

Inflorescences

1–2(4)-flowered.

Flowers

tepals 20– 40(50)mm, white or white tinged with pink, usually more pinkish with age, yellow band at base;

inner tepals with auricles at base;

stamens 12–20 mm;

filaments flattened, 0.8–2 mm wide, white;

anthers yellow;

style white;

stigma with recurved lobes 2–4 mm long.

Fruits

capsules 2–5 cm.

2n

=48.

Erythronium elegans

Erythronium grandiflorum

Distribution
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Discussion

Open sites on rocky slopes and cliffs. Flowering May–Jun. 400–1100m. CR. Native.

Erythronium elegans is a rare species, known only from the Coast Range in northern Oregon.

[Species with one variety or subspecies in Oregon.]

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 298
Stephen Meyers
Flora of Oregon, volume 1
Sibling taxa
E. citrinum, E. grandiflorum, E. hendersonii, E. hendersonii x Erythronium oregonum, E. klamathense, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. revolutum
E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. hendersonii, E. hendersonii x Erythronium oregonum, E. klamathense, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. revolutum
Subordinate taxa
E. grandiflorum var. grandiflorum
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