Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus coxii |
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Umpqua mariposa-lily |
Cox's cat's ear, Cox's mariposa-lily |
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Stems | not branching, straight, often scapelike, 2–3 dm, glabrous or glaucous. |
usually not branching, straight to flexuous, often scapelike, 15–25 cm. |
Leaves | basal solitary, clasping; blade narrowly lanceolate, hairy, adaxially hispid, abaxially glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Inflorescences 1–several-flowered; bracts 2, suboppo-site, narrowly lanceolate. |
basal ± erect, to 3 dm × 3–7 mm; blade with adaxial surface densely hairy, abaxial surface glabrous, shiny. |
Inflorescences | erect, 1–7-flowered; bracts 1–several, 2.5–3 cm. |
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Flowers | 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. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate-acuminate, 20 × 8 mm; petals white, with reddish striations from base to gland and broad lavender chevron just distal to gland margins, broadly obovate, 2.5 cm, adaxial surface densely hairy, margins slightly ciliate; glands transversely oblong-lunate, deeply depressed, green at adaxial base, 1/2 to nearly equaling petal claw width, surrounded by yellow hairs that grade to white at petal apex, covered with membranous scales, scales covered with very small, translucent, rodlike hairs; filaments 7 mm; anthers reddish brown, 3–7 mm, apex apiculate. |
Capsules | nodding, 3–5.4 cm. |
nodding, 3-winged, ellipsoid-elongate, 3–4 cm. |
Seeds | 2.8–3.5 mm, with inflated bulbous crest and hollow lateral ridge. |
light beige, surface rough. |
2n | = 20. |
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Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus coxii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering mid summer. |
Habitat | Grassland-forest ecotones in serpentine-derived soils | North-facing open grassy slopes or woods, on serpentine |
Elevation | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) | 200–1000 m (700–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
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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.) |
Of conservation concern. Calochortus coxii is endemic to Douglas County from near the Umpqua River to Myrtle Creek Mountain. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26, p. 126. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
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Name authority | Fredricks: Syst. Bot. 14: 12, figs. 1, 2, 3f–j, 4, 5. (1989) | M. R. Godfrey & Callahan: Phytologia 65: 216, fig.1g–k. (1988) |
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