Erythronium klamathense |
Erythronium albidum |
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Klamath fawn-lily |
white fawnlily, white trout-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 25–40 mm. |
ovoid, 15–30 mm; stolons 1–3, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by offshoots or droppers. |
Leaves | 6–17 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, ± folded along midvein, margins entire to wavy. |
8–22 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
Scape | 6–20 cm. |
7–20 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals 2/3 or more white, with yellow zone at base, ± pinkish in age, broadly lanceolate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–14 mm; filaments white, slender; anthers ± yellow; style white, 4–9 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, white, tinged pink, blue, or lavender abaxially, with yellow adaxial spot at base, lanceolate, 22–40 mm, auricles absent; stamens 10–20 mm; filaments yellow, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 15–25 mm; stigma lobes recurving, 1.5 mm. |
Capsules | narrowly obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
held erect at maturity, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate. |
2n | = 24. |
= 44. |
Erythronium klamathense |
Erythronium albidum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring to summer (Apr–Jun). | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Montane meadows, openings in coniferous forests | Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests |
Elevation | 1200–1900 m (3900–6200 ft) | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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AL; AR; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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Discussion | Erythronium albidum often forms extensive colonies in which nonflowering, 1-leaved plants far outnumber flowering, 2-leaved ones. It is very widespread in eastern North America, more common in the central states than E. americanum and often occurs in slightly drier sites. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 163. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 151. (1930) | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818) |
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