Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus palmeri |
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
Palmer's mariposa lily, strangling mariposa |
|||||
Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
usually branching, straight, 3–6 dm; bearing bulblets or not. |
||||
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear-attenuate. |
||||
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
mono-chasiate, 1–4-flowered; bracts 1–2 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, broadly campanulate; sepals usually with brownish blotch near base, lanceolate, 3 cm, apex acuminate; petals white to lavender, sometimes with brownish blotch distal to gland, obovate-cuneate, rounded distally, 2–3 cm, usually with yellow hairs near gland, apex acute to acuminate; glands many, rounded, not depressed, short, thick, distally knobbed, sometimes with yellowish or purplish hairs, otherwise glabrous; filaments 7–8 mm; anthers white, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex acute. |
||||
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled in cross section, ca. 5 cm. |
||||
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
|||||
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
||||
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus palmeri |
|||||
Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
|
CA
|
||||
Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
|||||
Key |
|
|||||
Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 133. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | |||||
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 266. (1879) | ||||
Web links |