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Erythronium elegans

Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily

golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily

Bulbs

slender, 30–50 mm.

± ovoid, 40–75 mm.

Leaves

7–20 cm;

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

7–30 cm;

blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy.

Scape

10–30 cm.

8–35 cm.

Inflorescences

1–2(–4)-flowered.

1–10-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 yellow, bronze in age, lanceolate, 15–28 mm, not auriculate at base;

stamens 8–12 mm;

filaments yellow, slender;

anthers yellow;

style yellow, 6–8 mm;

stigma unlobed or with very short, rounded lobes shorter than 1 mm.

Capsules

obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

2n

= 48.

Erythronium elegans

Erythronium pluriflorum

Phenology Flowering late spring (May–Jun). Flowering summer (Jun–Jul).
Habitat Meadows and open coniferous forests Open montane coniferous forests
Elevation 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) 2300–2600 m (7500–8500 ft)
Distribution
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CA
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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.)

Of conservation concern.

Erythronium pluriflorum is known only from Madera County.

(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
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. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, 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) Shevock: Madroño 37: 268, fig. 3. (1991)
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