Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus weedii |
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Lyall's 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 or with branch in axil of cauline leaf, straight, 1–5 dm. |
slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
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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, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
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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. |
2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
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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 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, base and apex acute. |
erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
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Seeds | irregular. |
light beige. |
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2n | = 20. |
= 18. |
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Calochortus lyallii |
Calochortus weedii |
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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; 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, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||
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Name authority | Baker: J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 305. (1874) | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | ||||||||
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