Erythronium californicum |
Erythronium propullans |
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California fawn-lily |
Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
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Bulbs | ovoid, 35–60 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants. |
Leaves | 7–18 cm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, oblong to narrowly ovate, margins usually wavy. |
4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
Scape | ± reddish, branched well above leaves when flowers more than 1, 10–30 cm. |
3.9–12 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1-flowered. |
Flowers | flowering individuals generally abundant in populations; tepals white to cream, base yellow and often banded with brown or red, ± narrowly ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–25 mm; filaments ± white, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers white to cream; style ± white, 10–14 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes less than 2 mm. |
tepals 4–6, strongly reflexed at anthesis, pale pink to white, darker abaxially, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, auricles absent; stamens 2–6, 6–8 mm; filaments white, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 6–10 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
Capsules | obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum. |
2n | = 24. |
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Erythronium californicum |
Erythronium propullans |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry woods, openings, cliffs | Mesic floodplain woods |
Elevation | 0–1900 m (0–6200 ft) | 300 m (1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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MN
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Discussion | Forms intermediate with Erythronium citrinum and E. multiscapideum are sometimes seen where ranges overlap. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Erythronium propullans is known only from Goodhue and Rice counties. It often forms extensive colonies in which flowering plants are sometimes more abundant than nonflowering, 1-leaved ones, and sometimes the reverse. It grows mixed with E. albidum (J. A. Banks 1980), and putative hybrids between them have been reported (T. Morley 1988). Flowers frequently have fewer than six tepals and stamens (C. O. Rosendahl 1919), and may occasionally have only two carpels. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. | FNA vol. 26, p. 164. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Purdy: Fl. & Sylva 2: 253. (1904) | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) |
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