Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium revolutum |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 35–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
10–25 mm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
15–40 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 uniformly clear violet-pink at anthesis, with yellow banding at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens ± appressed to style, 12–22 mm; filaments white to pink (darkening with age), flattened, ± lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide; anthers bright yellow; style white to pink, 12–18 mm; stigma with slender recurved lobes 4–6 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium revolutum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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Name authority | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) | Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) |
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