Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium tuolumnense |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
Tuolumne fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
ovoid, 50–100 mm, readily forming sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
15–35 cm; blade green, elliptic to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
Scape | 10–30 cm. |
± reddish, 15–35 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–2(–4)-flowered. |
usually 1–4-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, narrowly ovate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–16 mm; filaments white to creamy white, slightly widened, 0.4–0.6 mm wide at base; anthers yellow; style ± white, 8–10 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 tuolumnense |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | Flowering early spring (Mar). |
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | Open woods, shady canyons |
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | 600–1000 m (2000–3300 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. (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) | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 153. (1930) |
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