Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus excavatus |
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Umpqua mariposa-lily |
Inyo County star-tulip |
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Stems | not branching, straight, often scapelike, 2–3 dm, glabrous or glaucous. |
slender, not branching, 1–3 dm. |
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 usually persistent, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts paired, 3–8 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 lanceolate, 2–3 cm, apex acuminate; petals lavender, with longitudinal median abaxial green stripe, with or without blotches, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, with a few short hairs near gland; glands round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs; filaments 6–8 mm; anthers red-brown, oblong, 7–10 mm, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | nodding, 3–5.4 cm. |
erect, brown, lanceoloid-linear, 3-angled, 2–3 cm. |
Seeds | 2.8–3.5 mm, with inflated bulbous crest and hollow lateral ridge. |
light beige, translucent, flat. |
2n | = 20. |
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Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus excavatus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Grassland-forest ecotones in serpentine-derived soils | Grassy meadows in shadscale scrub |
Elevation | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) | 1200–2000 m (3900–6600 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA |
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.) |
Calochortus excavatus is found only in the eastern Sierra Nevada in Mono and Inyo counties. It is threatened by groundwater depletion. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26, p. 137. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Fredricks: Syst. Bot. 14: 12, figs. 1, 2, 3f–j, 4, 5. (1989) | Greene: Pittonia 2: 71. (1890) |
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