Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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foothill mariposa lily, Weed's mariposa, Weed's mariposa lily |
sego-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | ||||||||
Stems | slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
usually not branching or twisted, straight, 1.5–4.5 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
blade linear, becoming involute; basal withering. |
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Inflorescences | 2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts congested, unequal. |
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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 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. |
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Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
erect, linear-lanceoloid, 3-angled, apex acuminate. |
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Seeds | light beige. |
flat. |
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2n | = 18. |
= 16. |
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Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus nuttallii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–late summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry soils | |||||||||
Elevation | 700–3300 m (2300–10800 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WY
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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, p. 136. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||
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Name authority | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | Torrey: in H. Stansbury, Exped. Great Salt Lake, 397. (1852) | ||||||||
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