Calochortus palmeri |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Palmer's mariposa lily, strangling mariposa |
sego-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | ||||
Stems | usually branching, straight, 3–6 dm; bearing bulblets or not. |
usually not branching or twisted, straight, 1.5–4.5 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear-attenuate. |
blade linear, becoming involute; basal withering. |
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Inflorescences | mono-chasiate, 1–4-flowered; bracts 1–2 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts congested, unequal. |
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Flowers | 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. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals marked similar to petals, usually shorter, lanceolate, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white, tinged with lilac or infrequently magenta, yellow at base, with reddish brown or purple band or blotch distal to gland, broadly obovate, cuneate, sparsely invested near gland with slender hairs, apex usually short-acuminate; glands round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments ca. equaling anthers; anthers yellowish or pinkish, oblong, apex obtuse. |
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Capsules | erect, linear, angled in cross section, ca. 5 cm. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, 3-angled, apex acuminate. |
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Seeds | flat. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 16. |
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Calochortus palmeri |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–late summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry soils | |||||
Elevation | 700–3300 m (2300–10800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WY
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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. 133. | FNA vol. 26, p. 136. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
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Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 266. (1879) | Torrey: in H. Stansbury, Exped. Great Salt Lake, 397. (1852) | ||||
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