Flora of North America species comparison

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Clintonia uniflora

bead lily, blue-bead clintonia, bluebead, bride's-bonnet, queen's-cup
Habit Plants 1.5–2.5 dm; rhizomes elongate.
Cauline leaves

2–3;

blade pale green adaxially, oblanceolate to obovate, 8–20 × 2.5–6.5 cm.
Inflorescences

1(–2)-flowered, erect;

bract 1, narrowly linear.
Flowers

tepals creamy white, broadly obovate to oblanceolate, 18–25 × 5–7 mm;

filaments 11–18 mm;

anthers oblong-linear, 3.5–5.5 mm.
Berries

deep lustrous blue, subglobose to pyriform, 10–18-seeded, 6–12 mm.
Seeds

3–4 mm.
2n

= 28.

Clintonia uniflora
Phenology Flowering late May–Jul.
Habitat Montane coniferous forests
Elevation 0–2600 m (0–8500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 152.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Clintonia
Sibling taxa
C. andrewsiana, C. borealis, C. umbellulata
Synonyms Smilacina borealis var. uniflora, Smilacina uniflora
Name authority (Menzies ex Schultes) Kunth: Enum. Pl. 5: 159. (1850)
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