Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium citrinum |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
citrus fawn lily, cream fawn lily, lemon color fawn lily, lemon fawn lily, pale fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
slender, 40–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
9–15 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
12–35 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. |
tepals ± white, often pinkish, usually pale yellow at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–45 mm, inner with or without small auricles at base; stamens 11–17 mm; filaments linear, white or pinkish, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers white, cream, pink, reddish, or brownish red; style straight, white or pink, 6–10 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium citrinum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Dry woods, brushy slopes, common on serpentine substrates |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 100–1300 (–1800) m (300–4300 (–5900) ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA; OR
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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.) |
Plants lacking auricles on inner tepals are sometimes segregated as Erythronium howellii, Howell’s fawn-lily, but they do not appear to differ from typical E. citrinum in any other characters. Erythronium citrinum intergrades with E. californicum and E. hendersonii, occasional populations or individuals displaying intermediate or recombined characteristics. Such plants from the upper Scott River drainage in Trinity County, California, which may be the result of introgression with E. hendersonii, have been recognized as variety roderickii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | E. citrinum var. roderickii, E. howellii | |
Name authority | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 480. (1887) |
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