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Erythronium elegans

Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily

purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada fawn-lily

Bulbs

slender, 30–50 mm.

slender, 25–40 mm.

Leaves

7–20 cm;

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

6–15 cm;

blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy.

Scape

10–30 cm.

7–20 cm.

Inflorescences

1–2(–4)-flowered.

1–6-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, bright yellow on proximal 1/3, pinkish purple in age, lanceolate, 10–20 mm, not auriculate at base;

stamens 8–12 mm;

filaments yellow, slender;

anthers cream to yellow;

style yellow, 4–5 mm;

stigma ± unlobed.

Capsules

obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

2n

= 48.

Erythronium elegans

Erythronium purpurascens

Phenology Flowering late spring (May–Jun). Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug).
Habitat Meadows and open coniferous forests Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places
Elevation 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft)
Distribution
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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. 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. pluriflorum, E. propullans, 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 12: 277. (1877)
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