Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium quinaultense |
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white fawnlily, white trout-lily |
fawnlily, Olympic fawn-lily, quinault fawn-lily, quinault trout-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, 35–75 mm. |
Leaves | 8–22 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
12–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with white or brown, lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 7–20 cm. |
12–25 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–3-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 proximally, shading to pink at outer margins, darkest toward tips, with yellow band at base, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 30–50 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–24 mm; filaments white, flattened, slightly widened, linear to lanceolate, 1–2 mm wide; anthers yellow; style white, 10–18 mm; stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 1–5 mm. |
Capsules | held erect at maturity, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate. |
oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
2n | = 44. |
= 48. |
Erythronium albidum |
Erythronium quinaultense |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late spring (May). |
Habitat | Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests | Openings and rocky ledges in coniferous forests |
Elevation | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) | 500–900 m (1600–3000 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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WA
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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.) |
Erythronium quinaultense is a tetraploid species apparently derived from hybridization between E. montanum and E. revolutum. It is known only from the southwestern Olympic Peninsula. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 163. | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818) | G. A. Allen: Syst. Bot. 26: 269, fig. 3. (2001) |
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