Calochortus coxii |
Calochortus panamintensis |
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Cox's cat's ear, Cox's mariposa-lily |
Panamint mariposa-lily, Panamint Mountain mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |
Stems | usually not branching, straight to flexuous, often scapelike, 15–25 cm. |
usually not branching or twisted, 4–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal ± erect, to 3 dm × 3–7 mm; blade with adaxial surface densely hairy, abaxial surface glabrous, shiny. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | erect, 1–7-flowered; bracts 1–several, 2.5–3 cm. |
1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
Flowers | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate-acuminate, 20 × 8 mm; petals white, with reddish striations from base to gland and broad lavender chevron just distal to gland margins, broadly obovate, 2.5 cm, adaxial surface densely hairy, margins slightly ciliate; glands transversely oblong-lunate, deeply depressed, green at adaxial base, 1/2 to nearly equaling petal claw width, surrounded by yellow hairs that grade to white at petal apex, covered with membranous scales, scales covered with very small, translucent, rodlike hairs; filaments 7 mm; anthers reddish brown, 3–7 mm, apex apiculate. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals with dark purple or red blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, apex acuminate; petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface, not spotted, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous; glands surrounded by red or purple border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments ca. 6 mm; anthers bluish, oblong, 5–7 mm, ± glabrous, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | nodding, 3-winged, ellipsoid-elongate, 3–4 cm. |
erect, tan to brown, linear-lanceoloid, angled, ca. 7 cm, apex acuminate. |
Seeds | light beige, surface rough. |
light yellow, flat. |
2n | = 14. |
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Calochortus coxii |
Calochortus panamintensis |
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Phenology | Flowering mid summer. | Flowering early–mid summer. |
Habitat | North-facing open grassy slopes or woods, on serpentine | Dry rocky slopes in pinyon-juniper woodland |
Elevation | 200–1000 m (700–3300 ft) | 2300–3200 m (7500–10500 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA; NV |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Calochortus coxii is endemic to Douglas County from near the Umpqua River to Myrtle Creek Mountain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Calochortus panamintensis is restricted to the Panamint Mountains, Inyo County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 126. | FNA vol. 26, p. 137. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. panamintensis | |
Name authority | M. R. Godfrey & Callahan: Phytologia 65: 216, fig.1g–k. (1988) | (Ownbey) Reveal: in A. Cronquist et al., Intermount. Fl. 6: 501. (1977) |
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