Calochortus venustus |
Calochortus coxii |
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butterfly mariposa lily, square mariposa tulip |
Cox's cat's ear, Cox's mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | |
Stems | usually branching, 1–6 dm. |
usually not branching, straight to flexuous, often scapelike, 15–25 cm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal ± erect, to 3 dm × 3–7 mm; blade with adaxial surface densely hairy, abaxial surface glabrous, shiny. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6(–10)-flowered; bracts 2–8 cm. |
erect, 1–7-flowered; bracts 1–several, 2.5–3 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. |
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 | erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. |
nodding, 3-winged, ellipsoid-elongate, 3–4 cm. |
Seeds | light beige, ± flat, 4–6 mm. |
light beige, surface rough. |
2n | = 14. |
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Calochortus venustus |
Calochortus coxii |
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Phenology | Flowering mid spring–mid summer. | Flowering mid summer. |
Habitat | Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest | North-facing open grassy slopes or woods, on serpentine |
Elevation | 300–2700 m (1000–8900 ft) | 200–1000 m (700–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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OR
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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.) |
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. 134. | FNA vol. 26, p. 126. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | 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) | M. R. Godfrey & Callahan: Phytologia 65: 216, fig.1g–k. (1988) |
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