Burke: Fritillaria camschatcensis

	Fritillaria camschatcensis
	black lily, Indian rice
Habit	Perennial herb from a small, scaly bulb and numerous rice-sized offset bulblets, the sturdy, unbranched, glabrous stem 2-5 dm. tall.
Leaves	Leaves in 1-3 whorls of 5-9, and a few scattered upward, lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long.
Flowers	Flowers 2-7 in a loose raceme, spreading to pendant, narrowly bell-shaped, ill-smelling, dark greenish-brown to brownish-purple, sometimes streaked with yellow but not mottled; tepals elliptic, distinct, 20-30 mm. long and 7-12 mm. broad, ridged lengthwise on the inner surface; filaments 6, slender, twice the length of the anthers; styles attached to each other about 1/3 of their length.
Fruits	Capsule cylindric-ovoid, about 25 mm. long

	Fritillaria camschatcensis
Flowering time	May-July
Habitat	Moist areas from near tide flats to mountain meadows.
Distribution	Occurring west of the Cascades crest in northwestern Washington; Alaska to Oregon. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native
Conservation status	Threatened in Washington (WANHP)
Sibling taxa	F. affinis, F. pudica
Web links	Local floras: BC, OR, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Fritillaria camschatcensis

black lily, Indian rice

Habit

Perennial herb from a small, scaly bulb and numerous rice-sized offset bulblets, the sturdy, unbranched, glabrous stem 2-5 dm. tall.

Leaves

Leaves in 1-3 whorls of 5-9, and a few scattered upward, lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long.

Flowers

Flowers 2-7 in a loose raceme, spreading to pendant, narrowly bell-shaped, ill-smelling, dark greenish-brown to brownish-purple, sometimes streaked with yellow but not mottled;

tepals elliptic, distinct, 20-30 mm. long and 7-12 mm. broad, ridged lengthwise on the inner surface;

filaments 6, slender, twice the length of the anthers;

styles attached to each other about 1/3 of their length.

Fruits

Capsule cylindric-ovoid, about 25 mm. long