Calochortus vestae |
Calochortus venustus |
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Coast Range mariposa lily |
butterfly mariposa lily, square mariposa tulip |
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Habit | Plants strongly bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. |
Stems | usually branching, straight, 3–5 dm. |
usually branching, 1–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–3-flowered; bracts 2–5 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–6(–10)-flowered; bracts 2–8 cm. |
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 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, 4–7 cm, apex acute. |
erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. |
Seeds | light beige, flat, 4–6 mm. |
light beige, ± flat, 4–6 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 14. |
Calochortus vestae |
Calochortus venustus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering mid spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Heavy clay soils in mixed evergreen and pine forests | Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest |
Elevation | 500–900 m (1600–3000 ft) | 300–2700 m (1000–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
CA
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 135. | FNA vol. 26, p. 134. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
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Synonyms | Mariposa venusta | |
Name authority | Purdy: Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 18: 14. (1895) | Douglas ex Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 412, plate 15, fig. 3. (1835) |
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