Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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Henderson's fawn-lily |
Sierra fawn-lily, Sierra foothills fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 40–55 mm. |
ovoid, 20–50 mm, producing bulbels (usually 1–3 per parent bulb) at ends of long, slender stolons. |
Leaves | 10–25 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, oblong to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
4–16 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ± lanceolate, margins entire to wavy. |
Scape | reddish, 12–30 cm. |
8–23 cm, branching just above leaves near ground level when flowers more than 1. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered. |
1–4-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals violet to pink, darker at tips, dark purple at base, broadly lanceolate, 18–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 10–14 mm; filaments violet-purple, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers pale brown to purple; style violet, 6–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
flowering individuals generally uncommon in populations, most plants 1-leaved and vegetative; tepals white to cream with yellow base, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 16–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 10–15 mm; filaments white, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers white to cream; style white, 10–13 mm; stigma unlobed or with recurved lobes 1–4 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Dry woods and forest openings | Open woods, brushy slopes, sometimes on serpentines |
Elevation | 300–1600 m (1000–5200 ft) | 400–1000 m (1300–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA
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Discussion | Erythronium multiscapideum is unusual among western species (and resembles some eastern species) in its tendency to reproduce vegetatively through the production of bulbels at the ends of stolons. It is similar in many respects to E. californicum and sometimes intergrades with it, resulting in occasional populations with the bulb characteristics of one species and the inflorescence branching pattern of the other. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. | FNA vol. 26, p. 161. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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Synonyms | Fritillaria multiscapidea | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 479. (1887) | (Kellogg) A. Nelson & Kennedy: Muhlenbergia 3: 137. (1908) |
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