Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus clavatus var. avius |
|||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
clubhair mariposa lily, Pleasant Valley mariposa-lily |
|||||||||||||||||
Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
coarse, flexuous, 5–10 dm. |
||||||||||||||||
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
not recurved. |
||||||||||||||||
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
|||||||||||||||||
Flowers | 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. |
petals shorter than sepals; glands very deeply depressed, more so than species. |
||||||||||||||||
Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
|||||||||||||||||
Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
|||||||||||||||||
2n | = 16. |
|||||||||||||||||
Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus clavatus var. avius |
|||||||||||||||||
Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry, rocky slopes, chaparral, often on serpentine | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–1300 m (0–4300 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
|
CA |
||||||||||||||||
Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Calochortus clavatus var. avius is found in the northern Sierra Nevada foothills in Eldorado and Amador counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||||||||||||||
Key |
|
|||||||||||||||||
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 139. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus > Calochortus clavatus | ||||||||||||||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||||||||||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||||||||||||||
Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Jepson: Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 235. (1923) | ||||||||||||||||
Web links |