Burke: Fritillaria glauca vs. Fritillaria camschatcensis

	Fritillaria glauca	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 glauca	Fritillaria camschatcensis
Flowering time		May-July
Habitat		Moist areas from near tide flats to mountain meadows.
Distribution	[WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]	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. camschatcensis, F. pudica	F. affinis, F. pudica
Web links	Local floras: CA, OR Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, 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	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 glauca

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