Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus minimus |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
Sierra mariposa, Sierra mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
not branching, less than 1 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal persistent, 1–2 dm; blade linear, flat; cauline usually absent. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
1–10-flowered. |
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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; sepals lanceolate, 8–10 mm, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white, obovate, 10–14 mm, not ciliate, adaxial surface glabrous or sometimes with few hairs near gland; glands bordered proximally by ± ciliate membrane; filaments equaling anthers; anthers linear-oblong, apex acute. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
nodding, 3-winged, ellipsoid, 1–2 cm. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
irregular. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus minimus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Moist grassy areas in open woods, along lake margins | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1200–3000 m (3900–9800 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Derivatives of hybridization between Calochortus minimus and C. nudus (pink- to lavender-tinged petals with rounded tips) occur in the northern high Sierra Nevada (B. D. Ness et al. 1990). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 128. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 430. (1940) | ||||||||||||||||
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