Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus flexuosus |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
winding mariposa, winding mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants rarely bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | ||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
twining or straggling over ground, branching, 1–2 dm, usually sinuous. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal, withering; blade linear, attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
1–4-flowered; bracts 1–3 cm. |
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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. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate, each member with transverse yellow band; sepals lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 cm; petals white with lilac tinge, darker veined, especially distally, sometimes with purple blotch distal to gland, obovate to cuneate, 3–4 cm, with sparse or dense, short or long hairs near gland, apex rounded; glands transverse-lunate or wider, densely short-hairy; filaments 6–10 mm; anthers oblong, 5–7 mm, apex obtuse or acute. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, lanceoloid, angled, stout, 3–4 cm. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
light beige, flat. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 14. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus flexuosus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry stony slopes, desert hills, mesas, creosote bush scrub, sagebrush scrub | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 500–2000 m (1600–6600 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; 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, p. 131. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | S. Watson: Amer. Naturalist 7: 303. (1873) | ||||||||||||||||
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