Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily |
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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. |
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Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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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 |
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 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 | ||
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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