Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium pusaterii |
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white fawnlily, white trout-lily |
hocket lakes fawn lily, Kaweah fawn lily, Kaweah Lakes 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. |
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. |
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Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium pusaterii |
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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 |
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 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 | ||
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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