Calochortus ambiguus |
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doubting mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. |
Stems | usually branching, straight. |
Leaves | basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
Flowers | erect; perianth pinkish or bluish gray, infrequently with longitudinal gray stripe, open, campanulate; sepals invested near gland, with yellowish, distally enlarged or branching, gland-tipped hairs, base sometimes marked with dull purple, apex acuminate; petals with median blotch usually surrounded by yellow zone, ± equaling sepals, base sometimes marked with dull purple; glands round to lunate, depressed, surrounded with narrow, deeply fringed membrane, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse to acute. |
Capsules | erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
Seeds | flat. |
2n | = 18. |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry soils |
Elevation | 1100–2700 m (3600–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; UT
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Source | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) |
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