Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus panamintensis |
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Umpqua mariposa-lily |
Panamint mariposa-lily, Panamint Mountain mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |
Stems | not branching, straight, often scapelike, 2–3 dm, glabrous or glaucous. |
usually not branching or twisted, 4–6 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 withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 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 with dark purple or red blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, apex acuminate; petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface, not spotted, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous; glands surrounded by red or purple border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments ca. 6 mm; anthers bluish, oblong, 5–7 mm, ± glabrous, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | nodding, 3–5.4 cm. |
erect, tan to brown, linear-lanceoloid, angled, ca. 7 cm, apex acuminate. |
Seeds | 2.8–3.5 mm, with inflated bulbous crest and hollow lateral ridge. |
light yellow, flat. |
2n | = 20. |
= 14. |
Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus panamintensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering early–mid summer. |
Habitat | Grassland-forest ecotones in serpentine-derived soils | Dry rocky slopes in pinyon-juniper woodland |
Elevation | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) | 2300–3200 m (7500–10500 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA; NV |
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 panamintensis is restricted to the Panamint Mountains, Inyo County. (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 | ||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. panamintensis | |
Name authority | Fredricks: Syst. Bot. 14: 12, figs. 1, 2, 3f–j, 4, 5. (1989) | (Ownbey) Reveal: in A. Cronquist et al., Intermount. Fl. 6: 501. (1977) |
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