Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | ||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
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Flower(s) | erect; perianth open, cup-shaped; sepals usually with red-brown blotch at base, lanceolate-ovate, 2–4 cm, apex acute; petals lemon to golden yellow, with transverse line distal to gland, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–5 cm; glands round, deeply depressed, densely covered with short hairs with branching, coralline tips, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane and club-shaped hairs; filaments ca. 10 mm; anthers purplish brown, oblong, 4–10 mm. |
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. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
yellow, flat. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 14. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | ||||||||||||||||
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