Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium |
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Henderson's fawn-lily |
fawn-lily, trout-lily |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, scape-like; from elongate bulbs, rhizomes present. | |
Leaves | 10–25 cm; blades oblong to lanceovate, mottled brown or white; margins entire to wavy. |
2(3), or 1 in non-flowering plants; basal, with short petioles; blades lanceolate to elliptic, 5–25 cm, mottled or not, glabrous; margins entire or wavy. |
Scapes | 5–35 cm long. |
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Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered. |
peduncled racemes, 1–10-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals 20–38 mm, purple to pink, dark purple at base; inner tepals with auricles at base; stamens 10–15 mm; filaments linear; less than 1 mm wide, purple; anthers brown to purple; style purple; stigma entire or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
usually nodding; tepals 6, recurved; distinct, similar, often strongly recurved, lanceolate to ovate, white, yellow, pink, or purple, often different colored at base; stamens 6; ovary superior; style 1; stigma entire or 3-lobed, recurved when lobed. |
Fruits | capsules 2–4 cm. |
capsules; ovoid to oblong, 3-sided; dehiscence loculicidal. |
Seeds | ovoid, brown. |
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2n | =24. |
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Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Openings in dry woods, occasionally fields or meadows. Flowering Mar–May. 200–1800m. Casc, Sisk. CA. Native. |
Northern Hemisphere. 27 species; 8 species treated in Flora. A small population of E. multiscapideum was discovered in Jackson County in 2010. The collector (Frank Callahan), however, notes that the number of plants was not abundant and that the population was suffering from browsing deer. Whether this species is currently present in Oregon is unknown at this time. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 299 Stephen Meyers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 298 Stephen Meyers |
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