Erythronium klamathense |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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Klamath fawn-lily |
Sierra fawn-lily, Sierra foothills fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 25–40 mm. |
ovoid, 20–50 mm, producing bulbels (usually 1–3 per parent bulb) at ends of long, slender stolons. |
Leaves | 6–17 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, ± folded along midvein, margins entire to wavy. |
4–16 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ± lanceolate, margins entire to wavy. |
Scape | 6–20 cm. |
8–23 cm, branching just above leaves near ground level when flowers more than 1. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1–4-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. |
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 | narrowly obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Erythronium klamathense |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring to summer (Apr–Jun). | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Montane meadows, openings in coniferous forests | Open woods, brushy slopes, sometimes on serpentines |
Elevation | 1200–1900 m (3900–6200 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. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 161. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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Synonyms | Fritillaria multiscapidea | |
Name authority | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 151. (1930) | (Kellogg) A. Nelson & Kennedy: Muhlenbergia 3: 137. (1908) |
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