Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus weedii |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
foothill mariposa lily, Weed's mariposa, Weed's mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
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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, broadly campanulate; sepals ovate to lanceolate, attenuate, 2–3 cm; petals orange-yellow, flecked, broadly cuneate or obovate, ca. 2–3 cm, adaxially bearded with long yellow hairs, margins often red-brown, dentate or fringed; glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, surrounded by ring of long, dense, obscuring yellow hairs; filaments 8–12 mm; anthers lanceolate-oblong, apex acute. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
light beige. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 18. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus weedii |
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Distribution |
CA
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 4 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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