Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus superbus |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
superb mariposa lily, yellow mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
4–6 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 2–3 dm; blade linear. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
subumbellate, 1–3-flowered; bracts 2–8 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 median brown or purple blotch surrounded by bright yellow zone; sepals lanceolate, attenuate, 2–4 cm; petals white to yellowish or lavender, usually streaked with purple toward base, obovate to cuneate, rounded, 2–4 cm, with a few short hairs near gland, apex retuse to obtuse; glands linear, strongly chevron-shaped to weakly lunate, not depressed, densely covered with short hairs; filaments 7–9 mm; anthers lanceolate-linear to oblong, 8–10 mm, apex acute to obtuse. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm, apex acute. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 12, 14, 20, 26. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus superbus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Open slopes, dry meadows or wooded places in valley grassland, foothill woodland, pine forest | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–1700 m (0–5600 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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 134. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | Mariposa superba | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Purdy ex J. T. Howell: Leafl. W. Bot. 1: 11. (1932) | ||||||||||||||||
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