Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium taylorii |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
pilot ridge fawn lily, Taylor's fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 40–70 mm, often forming sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
18–35 cm; blade green, elliptic to oblanceolate, margins wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
25–40 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–2(–4)-flowered. |
1–4(–8)-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, proximal 1/2–2/3 bright yellow, becoming pinkish in age, lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner auriculate at base; stamens 10–16 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers cream colored; style white to cream, 9–11 mm; stigma ± unlobed or with 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 taylorii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Forest openings, rocky ledges |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 1300–1400 m (4300–4600 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.) |
Erythronium taylorii is known only from Tuolumne County in the central Sierra Nevada. (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 & G. A. Allen: Madroño 44: 360, fig. 1. (1998) |
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