Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium helenae |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
Mount St. Helena fawn-lily, Pacific fawnlily, St. Helena fawn lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
7–20 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
12–30 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–2(–4)-flowered. |
1–3-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals: inner ± white, outer ± white and tinged (often strongly) with pink, especially abaxially and along midline, becoming more generally pinkish with age, both inner and outer with yellow band at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 20–40 mm, abaxial surfaces and outer tepals often darker, inner auriculate at base; stamens 13–22 mm; filaments white, flattened, slightly widened, linear to lanceolate, 0.8–2 mm wide; anthers yellow; style white, 10–20 mm; stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 2–4 mm. |
fragrant; tepals ± white, bright yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–13 mm; filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers yellow; style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium helenae |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Dry woods or scrub, on serpentines |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 500–1200 m (1600–3900 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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Calif (vicinity of Mount St Helena) |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. This species is endemic to the Coast Ranges of western Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 188. (1933) |
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