Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus palmeri |
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Lyall's mariposa-lily |
Palmer's mariposa lily, strangling mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |||||
Stems | not branching or with branch in axil of cauline leaf, straight, 1–5 dm. |
usually branching, straight, 3–6 dm; bearing bulblets or not. |
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Leaves | basal solitary, persistent, 1–3 dm × 2–20 mm, usually not exceeding inflorescence; blade tapering toward both ends. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear-attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–9-flowered; bracts 2–several, lanceolate to linear, attenuate, unequal, 1–5 cm; peduncle slender, becoming stiffly erect in fruit. |
mono-chasiate, 1–4-flowered; bracts 1–2 cm. |
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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 open, broadly campanulate; sepals usually with brownish blotch near base, lanceolate, 3 cm, apex acuminate; petals white to lavender, sometimes with brownish blotch distal to gland, obovate-cuneate, rounded distally, 2–3 cm, usually with yellow hairs near gland, apex acute to acuminate; glands many, rounded, not depressed, short, thick, distally knobbed, sometimes with yellowish or purplish hairs, otherwise glabrous; filaments 7–8 mm; anthers white, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex acute. |
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Capsules | erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid, base and apex acute. |
erect, linear, angled in cross section, ca. 5 cm. |
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Seeds | irregular. |
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2n | = 20. |
= 14. |
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Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus palmeri |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry slopes, open coniferous forests | |||||
Elevation | 300–1500 m (1000–4900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
WA; BC
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CA
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Discussion | 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, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26, p. 133. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
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Name authority | Baker: J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 305. (1874) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 266. (1879) | ||||
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