Calochortus plummerae |
Calochortus umpquaensis |
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Plummer's mariposa-lily |
Umpqua mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | |
Stems | slender, usually branching, 3–6 dm. |
not branching, straight, often scapelike, 2–3 dm, glabrous or glaucous. |
Leaves | basal withering; blade linear to lanceolate, 2–4 dm. |
basal solitary, clasping; blade narrowly lanceolate, hairy, adaxially hispid, abaxially glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Inflorescences 1–several-flowered; bracts 2, suboppo-site, narrowly lanceolate. |
Inflorescences | 2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
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Flowers | erect; perianth open, broadly campanulate; sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, glabrous or with a few hairs at base, apex long-tapering; petals pale pink to rose, drying purplish, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, glabrous distally or nearly so, rarely fringed, with conspicuous, long, yellow hairs in broad median band, margins dentate; glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, bordered by ring of dense, obscuring, orange hairs; filaments 9–11 mm, ± equaling anthers; anthers lanceolate-linear, apex acute to somewhat short-tipped. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals lanceolate-acuminate, ca. 2 cm; petals white to cream, with dark purple-black, pentagonal to lunate blotch, broadly oblong to obovate, 3.5 cm, bearded, adaxial surface typically minutely papillose, margins erose; glands transversely oblong-lunate, slightly depressed, with 0.7–1.4 mm-wide band of short dendritic hairs distally, hairs surrounded by lime-green coloration and purple striations; anthers lanceolate, apex acuminate. |
Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 4–8 cm, apex acute. |
nodding, 3–5.4 cm. |
Seeds | light beige. |
2.8–3.5 mm, with inflated bulbous crest and hollow lateral ridge. |
2n | = 18. |
= 20. |
Calochortus plummerae |
Calochortus umpquaensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry rocky slopes, often in brush, chaparral, pine forest | Grassland-forest ecotones in serpentine-derived soils |
Elevation | 0–1700 m (0–5600 ft) | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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OR
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Calochortus umpquaensis is known only from Watson and Ace Williams mountains on both sides of the Little River, Douglas County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 140. | FNA vol. 26, p. 130. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 2: 70. (1890) | Fredricks: Syst. Bot. 14: 12, figs. 1, 2, 3f–j, 4, 5. (1989) |
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