Calochortus ambiguus |
Calochortus pulchellus |
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doubting mariposa lily |
Mount Diablo fairy-lantern, Mt. Diablo fairy-lantern |
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Habit | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |
Stems | usually branching, straight. |
usually branching distal to base, 1–3 dm, not glaucous. |
Leaves | basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
basal persistent, 1–4 dm; blade green, lanceolate, tapering at base, flat, not glaucous. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
1–5-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. |
nodding; perianth closed at apex, ± globular; sepals spreading, yellow-green, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 cm, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals pale yellow, lanceolate, 3–5 cm, conspicuously fringed with short, thick hairs, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy, apex obtuse; glands deeply depressed, bordered distally by long, slender hairs; filaments 6–8 mm; anthers oblong, 3–5 mm, apex obtuse or acute. |
Capsules | erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
nodding, winged, ellipsoid-oblong, 2–4 cm. |
Seeds | flat. |
dark brown, irregular. |
2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
Calochortus ambiguus |
Calochortus pulchellus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry soils | Open places in woods, chaparral, typically on serpentine |
Elevation | 1100–2700 m (3600–8900 ft) | 200–800 m (700–2600 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; UT
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CA |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Calochortus pulchellus is known from Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 123. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus | Cyclobothra pulchella |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) | (Bentham) Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 168. (1868) |
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