Calochortus eurycarpus |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
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big-pod mariposa, big-pod mariposa lily, white mariposa lily, wide-fruit mariposa lily |
Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |
Stems | not branching, straight, 1–5 dm. |
usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
Leaves | basal persistent, subtended by inflorescence, 1–3 dm × 5–25 mm; blade flat, tapering toward both ends, becoming involute. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–5-flowered; bracts 2 or more, narrowly lanceolate to linear, long-attenuate, unequal, 1–5 cm. |
1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
Flower(s) | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate to lanceolate, usually much shorter than petals, glabrous, apex acute to acuminate; petals creamy white to lavender, with conspicuous median red-purple adaxial blotch, obovate, invested near gland with few long, flexuous hairs, base cuneate, apex rounded or acute; glands triangular-lunate, slightly depressed, bordered proximally by comparatively narrow, deeply fringed membrane, distally often by narrower, crenate membranes, enclosed surface densely covered with long yellowish hairs, which, with membrane fringe, are often inconspicuously papillose; filaments slightly longer than anthers; anthers oblong, apex obtuse. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals with dark red or purple blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, usually glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface and dark red or purple crescent distal to gland, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous; glands surrounded by yellow border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments 5–6 mm; anthers yellow, blue, or maroon, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid-oblong. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
Seeds | light beige. |
yellow, flat. |
2n | = 20. |
= 14. |
Calochortus eurycarpus |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Grasslands and open coniferous forests | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands |
Elevation | 700–2700 m [2300–8900 ft] | 900–3000 m [3000–9800 ft] |
Distribution |
ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26. |
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Synonyms | C. nitidus var. eurycarpus | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis |
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 348. (1871) | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) |
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