Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus eurycarpus |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
big-pod mariposa, big-pod mariposa lily, white mariposa lily, wide-fruit mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
not branching, straight, 1–5 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal persistent, subtended by inflorescence, 1–3 dm × 5–25 mm; blade flat, tapering toward both ends, becoming involute. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–5-flowered; bracts 2 or more, narrowly lanceolate to linear, long-attenuate, unequal, 1–5 cm. |
Flower(s) | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals with dark red or purple blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, usually glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface and dark red or purple crescent distal to gland, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous; glands surrounded by yellow border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments 5–6 mm; anthers yellow, blue, or maroon, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex obtuse. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate to lanceolate, usually much shorter than petals, glabrous, apex acute to acuminate; petals creamy white to lavender, with conspicuous median red-purple adaxial blotch, obovate, invested near gland with few long, flexuous hairs, base cuneate, apex rounded or acute; glands triangular-lunate, slightly depressed, bordered proximally by comparatively narrow, deeply fringed membrane, distally often by narrower, crenate membranes, enclosed surface densely covered with long yellowish hairs, which, with membrane fringe, are often inconspicuously papillose; filaments slightly longer than anthers; anthers oblong, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid-oblong. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
light beige. |
2n | = 14. |
= 20. |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus eurycarpus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Grasslands and open coniferous forests |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 700–2700 m (2300–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | C. nitidus var. eurycarpus |
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 348. (1871) |
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