Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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foothill mariposa lily, Weed's mariposa, Weed's mariposa lily |
doubting mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | Plants often bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||||||
Stems | slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
usually branching, straight. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | 2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered. |
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Flowers | erect; perianth open, broadly campanulate; sepals ovate to lanceolate, attenuate, 2–3 cm; petals orange-yellow, flecked, broadly cuneate or obovate, ca. 2–3 cm, adaxially bearded with long yellow hairs, margins often red-brown, dentate or fringed; glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, surrounded by ring of long, dense, obscuring yellow hairs; filaments 8–12 mm; anthers lanceolate-oblong, apex acute. |
erect; perianth pinkish or bluish gray, infrequently with longitudinal gray stripe, open, campanulate; sepals invested near gland, with yellowish, distally enlarged or branching, gland-tipped hairs, base sometimes marked with dull purple, apex acuminate; petals with median blotch usually surrounded by yellow zone, ± equaling sepals, base sometimes marked with dull purple; glands round to lunate, depressed, surrounded with narrow, deeply fringed membrane, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse to acute. |
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Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute. |
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Seeds | light beige. |
flat. |
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2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
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Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus ambiguus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry soils | |||||||||
Elevation | 1100–2700 m (3600–8900 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; NM; UT
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. | FNA vol. 26. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||
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Synonyms | C. watsonii var. ambiguus | |||||||||
Name authority | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | (M. E. Jones) Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 505. (1940) | ||||||||
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