Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium umbilicatum |
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Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
dimpled trout-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 30–50 mm. |
ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolons absent, or 1 per bulb on 1-leaved plants. |
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Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
5–17 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ± flat, not glaucous, margins entire. |
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Scape | 10–30 cm. |
4–18 cm. |
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Inflorescences | 1–2(–4)-flowered. |
1-flowered. |
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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 strongly reflexed at anthesis, yellow, sometimes with brownish adaxial spots, variously tinged brown-purple abaxially, lanceolate, 13–30 mm, auricles absent; stamens 9–18 mm; filaments yellow, lanceolate; anthers brown, purple, or infrequently yellow; pollen brown, purple, or infrequently yellow; ovary apex indented; style deciduous or forming small apiculum, ± terete, not yellow, 8–24 mm; stigma lobes spreading, 1.2–1.7 mm. |
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Capsules | obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
± resting on ground due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex indented, umbilicate, or rarely rounded. |
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2n | = 48. |
= 24. |
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Erythronium elegans |
Erythronium umbilicatum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). | |||||
Habitat | Meadows and open coniferous forests | |||||
Elevation | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
OR
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s and e United States
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 162. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium | ||||
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Name authority | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) | C. R. Parks & Hardin: Brittonia 15: 252. (1963) | ||||
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