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white fawnlily, white trout-lily

hocket lakes fawn lily, Kaweah fawn lily, Kaweah Lakes fawn-lily

Bulbs

ovoid, 15–30 mm;

stolons 1–3, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by offshoots or droppers.

narrowly ovoid, 40–60 mm.

Leaves

8–22 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire.

10–35 cm;

blade green, lanceolate, margins ± wavy.

Scape

7–20 cm.

12–40 cm.

Inflorescences

1-flowered.

1–8-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 white, proximal 1/2–2/3 bright yellow, becoming pinkish in age, lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner auriculate at base;

stamens 8–15 mm;

filaments ± white, slender;

anthers yellow;

style ± white, 7–10 mm;

stigma ± unlobed, or with 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.

Erythronium albidum

Erythronium pusaterii

Phenology Flowering spring. Flowering late spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests Meadows, open forests, rocky ledges
Elevation 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) 2100–2500 m (6900–8200 ft)
Distribution
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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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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 pusaterii is known only from Tulare County in the southern Sierra Nevada.

(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
E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Synonyms E. grandiflorum subsp. pusaterii
Name authority Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818) (Munz & J. T. Howell) Shevock: Madroño 37: 264. (1991)
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