Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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white fawnlily, white trout-lily |
golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily |
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Bulbs | ovoid, 15–30 mm; stolons 1–3, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by offshoots or droppers. |
± ovoid, 40–75 mm. |
Leaves | 8–22 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
7–30 cm; blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 7–20 cm. |
8–35 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–10-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, white, tinged pink, blue, or lavender abaxially, with yellow adaxial spot at base, lanceolate, 22–40 mm, auricles absent; stamens 10–20 mm; filaments yellow, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 15–25 mm; stigma lobes recurving, 1.5 mm. |
tepals yellow, bronze in age, lanceolate, 15–28 mm, not auriculate at base; stamens 8–12 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers yellow; style yellow, 6–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with very short, rounded lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
Capsules | held erect at maturity, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
2n | = 44. |
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Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering summer (Jun–Jul). |
Habitat | Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests | Open montane coniferous forests |
Elevation | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) | 2300–2600 m (7500–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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CA |
Discussion | Erythronium albidum often forms extensive colonies in which nonflowering, 1-leaved plants far outnumber flowering, 2-leaved ones. It is very widespread in eastern North America, more common in the central states than E. americanum and often occurs in slightly drier sites. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Erythronium pluriflorum is known only from Madera County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 163. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818) | Shevock: Madroño 37: 268, fig. 3. (1991) |
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