Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
sego-lily |
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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, straight, 1.5–4.5 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
blade linear, becoming involute; basal withering. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts congested, unequal. |
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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 marked similar to petals, usually shorter, lanceolate, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white, tinged with lilac or infrequently magenta, yellow at base, with reddish brown or purple band or blotch distal to gland, broadly obovate, cuneate, sparsely invested near gland with slender hairs, apex usually short-acuminate; glands round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments ca. equaling anthers; anthers yellowish or pinkish, oblong, apex obtuse. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, 3-angled, apex acuminate. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
flat. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–late summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry soils | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 700–3300 m (2300–10800 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WY
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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. 136. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Torrey: in H. Stansbury, Exped. Great Salt Lake, 397. (1852) | ||||||||||||||||
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