Calochortus longebarbatus |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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long-bearded mariposa lily, long-bearded sego-lily, long-hair star-tulip, longbeard mariposa lily |
doubting mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |||||
Stems | usually not branching, 1–3 dm, proximal internodes very short; bulblet in axil of cauline leaf at or below ground surface. |
usually branching, straight. |
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Leaves | single; basal persistent, 2–3 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
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Flowers | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 15–20 mm, apex acuminate; petals light pink to ± lavender, with red-purple adaxial crescent distal to gland, widely obovate-cuneate, 20–30 mm, not ciliate, with a few long hairs; glands bordered proximally by ciliate membrane, distally by short hairs; filaments twice length of anthers; anther apex obtuse to abruptly short-tipped. |
erect; perianth pinkish or bluish gray, infrequently with longitudinal gray stripe, open, campanulate; sepals invested near gland, with yellowish, distally enlarged or branching, gland-tipped hairs, base sometimes marked with dull purple, apex acuminate; petals with median blotch usually surrounded by yellow zone, ± equaling sepals, base sometimes marked with dull purple; glands round to lunate, depressed, surrounded with narrow, deeply fringed membrane, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse to acute. |
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Capsules | erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid to ± globular, 2–3 cm. |
erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
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Seeds | light brown, irregular. |
flat. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Calochortus longebarbatus |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry soils | |||||
Elevation | 1100–2700 m (3600–8900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
w United States
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AZ; NM; UT
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Discussion | recent collections of calochortus longebarbatus from oregon exhibit intergradation in the characters that heretofore have been thought to distinguish the following two varieties (k. l. chambers pers. comm.), and their continued recognition may prove unwarranted Varieties 2 (2 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. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
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Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus | |||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 381. (1882) | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) | ||||
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