Calochortus eurycarpus |
Calochortus weedii |
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big-pod mariposa, big-pod mariposa lily, white mariposa lily, wide-fruit mariposa lily |
foothill mariposa lily, Weed's mariposa, Weed's mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | |||||||||
Stems | not branching, straight, 1–5 dm. |
slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
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Leaves | basal persistent, subtended by inflorescence, 1–3 dm × 5–25 mm; blade flat, tapering toward both ends, becoming involute. |
basal withering, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–5-flowered; bracts 2 or more, narrowly lanceolate to linear, long-attenuate, unequal, 1–5 cm. |
2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
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Flowers | 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, 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, 3-winged, ellipsoid-oblong. |
erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
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Seeds | light beige. |
light beige. |
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2n | = 20. |
= 18. |
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Calochortus eurycarpus |
Calochortus weedii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Grasslands and open coniferous forests | |||||||||
Elevation | 700–2700 m [2300–8900 ft] | |||||||||
Distribution |
ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; WY
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (3 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. | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | C. nitidus var. eurycarpus | |||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 348. (1871) | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | ||||||||
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