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Erythronium elegans

Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily

Erythronium hendersonii

Henderson's fawn-lily

Bulbs

slender, 30–50 mm.

slender, 40–55 mm.

Leaves

7–20 cm;

blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy.

10–25 cm;

blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, oblong to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy.

Scape

10–30 cm.

reddish, 12–30 cm.

Inflorescences

1–2(–4)-flowered.

1–4-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 violet to pink, darker at tips, dark purple at base, broadly lanceolate, 18–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 10–14 mm;

filaments violet-purple, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers pale brown to purple;

style violet, 6–8 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 hendersonii

Phenology Flowering late spring (May–Jun). Flowering spring (Mar–Apr).
Habitat Meadows and open coniferous forests Dry woods and forest openings
Elevation 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) 300–1600 m (1000–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
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from FNA
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.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 157. FNA vol. 26, p. 160.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Erythronium Liliaceae > Erythronium
Sibling taxa
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 479. (1887)
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