Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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Lyall's mariposa-lily |
doubting mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |
Stems | not branching or with branch in axil of cauline leaf, straight, 1–5 dm. |
usually branching, straight. |
Leaves | basal solitary, persistent, 1–3 dm × 2–20 mm, usually not exceeding inflorescence; blade tapering toward both ends. |
basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–9-flowered; bracts 2–several, lanceolate to linear, attenuate, unequal, 1–5 cm; peduncle slender, becoming stiffly erect in fruit. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
Flowers | erect or spreading; perianth open, campanulate; sepals white or purplish-tinged, usually with purple crescent, lanceolate, usually equaling petals, often adaxially papillose, apex acuminate to attenuate; petals white or purplish-tinged, usually with median, red-purple, adaxial crescent distal to gland, ovate to lanceolate, abruptly contracted at base into short, conspicuous claw, usually conspicuously fringed with long, slender hairs, adaxial surface ± papillose, bearing a few long hairs distal to claw, apex acute to acuminate; glands transversely oblong, depressed, arched upward, bordered proximally by narrower, crenate membrane, with short, thick hairs toward distal margin of enclosed surface, both fringe of lower membrane and hairs densely long-papillose; filaments basally dilated, ± equaling anthers; anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex acute to short-apiculate. |
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. |
Capsules | erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid, base and apex acute. |
erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
Seeds | irregular. |
flat. |
2n | = 20. |
= 18. |
Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry slopes, open coniferous forests | Dry soils |
Elevation | 300–1500 m (1000–4900 ft) | 1100–2700 m (3600–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
WA; BC
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AZ; NM; UT
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus | |
Name authority | Baker: J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 305. (1874) | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) |
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