Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus simulans |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
La Panza mariposa lily, San Luis obispo mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. |
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
usually branching, 1–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–3-flowered; bracts 2–8 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 with dark red proximal blotch surrounding gland and extending to base, lanceolate, 2–3 cm, apex recurved; petals white or yellowish, often pink abaxially, with dark red blotch surrounding gland, often with small red spot immediately above gland, obovate to cuneate, 3–5 cm, with scattered hairs proximally; glands suprabasal, ± square, not depressed, covered with short hairs; filaments usually equaling anthers; anthers linear-lanceolate to oblong. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
light beige, flat, 5–6 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus simulans |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Sand (often granitic), grasslands to pine forests |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 0–1100 m (0–3600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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CA |
Discussion | Calochortus simulans is restricted to central San Luis Obispo County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 134. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | Mariposa simulans |
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | (Hoover) Munz: Suppl. Calif. Fl., 174. (1968) |
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