Calochortus ambiguus |
Calochortus elegans |
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doubting mariposa lily |
cat's ear, elegant cat's ear, elegant mariposa lily, elegant sego lily, elegant star tulip, northwestern mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |||||||||
Stems | usually branching, straight. |
± slender, usually not branching, often scapelike, 0.5–2 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
basal persistent, 1–2 dm; blade linear, flat, glabrous adaxially. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
1–7-flowered. |
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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. |
erect to spreading; perianth open, campanulate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 12–16 mm, usually glabrous, adaxial surface minutely papillose; petals light green to white, usually with purple crescent distal to gland, ± oblanceolate or broader, 10–15 mm, adaxial surface hairy only distal to gland, margins conspicuously ciliate; glands lunate, usually slightly depressed, bordered proximally by ± ciliate membrane, distally by short hairs; anthers lanceolate, apex apiculate. |
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Capsules | erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
nodding, winged, ellipsoid-globular, 1–2 cm, apex obtuse or acute. |
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Seeds | flat. |
light brown, irregular. |
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2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
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Calochortus ambiguus |
Calochortus elegans |
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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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nw United States
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 125. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||
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Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus | |||||||||
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 240. (1814) | ||||||||
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