Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium pusaterii |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
hocket lakes fawn lily, Kaweah fawn lily, Kaweah Lakes fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 40–60 mm. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
10–35 cm; blade green, lanceolate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
12–40 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–2(–4)-flowered. |
1–8-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. |
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 | obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium pusaterii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering late spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Meadows, open forests, rocky ledges |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 2100–2500 m (6900–8200 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA |
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.) |
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. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | E. grandiflorum subsp. pusaterii | |
Name authority | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) | (Munz & J. T. Howell) Shevock: Madroño 37: 264. (1991) |
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