Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus venustus |
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foothill mariposa lily, Weed's mariposa, Weed's mariposa lily |
butterfly mariposa lily, square mariposa tulip |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||||||
Stems | slender, usually branching, 3–9 dm. |
usually branching, 1–6 dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 2–4 dm; blade linear to lanceolate. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
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Inflorescences | 2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. |
subumbellate, 1–6(–10)-flowered; bracts 2–8 cm. |
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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 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. |
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Capsules | erect, linear, angled, 4–5 cm, apex acute. |
erect, linear, angled, 5–6 cm. |
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Seeds | light beige. |
light beige, ± flat, 4–6 mm. |
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2n | = 18. |
= 14. |
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Calochortus weedii |
Calochortus venustus |
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Phenology | Flowering mid spring–mid summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Light sandy soil, often in decomposed granite in valley grassland, foothill woodland, and pine forest | |||||||||
Elevation | 300–2700 m (1000–8900 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. | FNA vol. 26, p. 134. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa venusta | |||||||||
Name authority | Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 169. (1868) | Douglas ex Bentham: Trans. Hort. Soc. London, ser. 2, 1: 412, plate 15, fig. 3. (1835) | ||||||||
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