Calochortus venustus |
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butterfly mariposa lily, square mariposa tulip |
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Habit | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. |
Stems | usually branching, 1–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6(–10)-flowered; bracts 2–8 cm. |
Flowers | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, apex recurved; petals white to brightly or deeply yellow, purple, or dark red, with dark red median blotch, often with second paler distal blotch, obovate or cuneate to clawed, rounded, 3–5 cm, with scattered proximal hairs, apex retuse to obtuse; glands in lower middle of petal, ± square, sometimes ovate, not depressed, covered with short, orange to red-purple hairs; filaments usually equaling anthers; anthers linear-lanceolate to oblong. |
Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. |
Seeds | light beige, ± flat, 4–6 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Calochortus venustus |
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Phenology | Flowering mid spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest |
Elevation | 300–2700 m (1000–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
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Discussion | Flower color and pattern are very showy and exceedingly variable in Calochortus venustus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 134. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
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Synonyms | Mariposa venusta |
Name authority | Douglas ex Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 412, plate 15, fig. 3. (1835) |
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