Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus superbus |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
superb mariposa lily, yellow mariposa |
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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. |
4–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 2–3 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, each member with median brown or purple blotch surrounded by bright yellow zone; sepals lanceolate, attenuate, 2–4 cm; petals white to yellowish or lavender, usually streaked with purple toward base, obovate to cuneate, rounded, 2–4 cm, with a few short hairs near gland, apex retuse to obtuse; glands linear, strongly chevron-shaped to weakly lunate, not depressed, densely covered with short hairs; filaments 7–9 mm; anthers lanceolate-linear to oblong, 8–10 mm, apex acute to obtuse. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm, apex acute. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 12, 14, 20, 26. |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus superbus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Open slopes, dry meadows or wooded places in valley grassland, foothill woodland, pine forest |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 0–1700 m (0–5600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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CA
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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 superba |
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | Purdy ex J. T. Howell: Leafl. W. Bot. 1: 11. (1932) |
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