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Erythronium montanum

avalanche-lily, white avalanche-lily, white glacier lily

Erythronium elegans

Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily

Bulbs

narrowly ovoid, 25–60 mm.

slender, 30–50 mm.

Leaves

10–20 cm;

blade green, ovate to broadly lanceolate, base ± abruptly narrowed to petiole, margins wavy.

7–20 cm;

blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy.

Scape

12–35 cm.

10–30 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

1–2(–4)-flowered.

Flowers

tepals white to creamy white with bright yellow zone at base, broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner wider than outer, auriculate at base, length less than 4 times width;

stamens 12–24 mm;

filaments white, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;

anthers bright yellow;

style white, 13–25 mm;

stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 1–5 mm.

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.

Capsules

oblong, 3–6 cm.

obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm.

2n

= 24.

= 48.

Erythronium montanum

Erythronium elegans

Phenology Flowering summer, usually soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). Flowering late spring (May–Jun).
Habitat Montane and subalpine meadows, open coniferous forests Meadows and open coniferous forests
Elevation (300–)800–2000 m ((1000–)2600–6600 ft) 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR; WA; BC
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OR
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Discussion

This species occurs in the Coast Ranges of southern British Columbia, and disjunctly to southern Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula, and Cascade Mountains from Mount Rainier National Park in Washington to central Oregon.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Of conservation concern.

This species is endemic to the Coast Ranges of western Oregon.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 157. FNA vol. 26, p. 157.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Erythronium Liliaceae > Erythronium
Sibling taxa
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 130. (1891) P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985)
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