Calochortus vestae |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Coast Range mariposa lily |
sego-lily |
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Habit | Plants strongly bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. |
Stems | usually branching, straight, 3–5 dm. |
usually not branching or twisted, straight, 1.5–4.5 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
blade linear, becoming involute; basal withering. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–3-flowered; bracts 2–5 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts congested, unequal. |
Flowers | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 2–3 cm; petals white to purplish, streaked red to purple proximal to gland, with median red-brown blotch surrounded by pale yellow zone, cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, with a few short hairs near gland, apex rounded; glands ± doubly lunate, not depressed, densely covered with short hairs; filaments equaling anthers; anthers oblong-linear, apex obtuse or acute. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals marked similar to petals, usually shorter, lanceolate, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white, tinged with lilac or infrequently magenta, yellow at base, with reddish brown or purple band or blotch distal to gland, broadly obovate, cuneate, sparsely invested near gland with slender hairs, apex usually short-acuminate; glands round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments ca. equaling anthers; anthers yellowish or pinkish, oblong, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 4–7 cm, apex acute. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, 3-angled, apex acuminate. |
Seeds | light beige, flat, 4–6 mm. |
flat. |
2n | = 28. |
= 16. |
Calochortus vestae |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering late spring–late summer. |
Habitat | Heavy clay soils in mixed evergreen and pine forests | Dry soils |
Elevation | 500–900 m (1600–3000 ft) | 700–3300 m (2300–10800 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 135. | FNA vol. 26, p. 136. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Purdy: Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 18: 14. (1895) | Torrey: in H. Stansbury, Exped. Great Salt Lake, 397. (1852) |
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