Erythronium montanum |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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avalanche-lily, white avalanche-lily, white glacier lily |
golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily |
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Bulbs | narrowly ovoid, 25–60 mm. |
± ovoid, 40–75 mm. |
Leaves | 10–20 cm; blade green, ovate to broadly lanceolate, base ± abruptly narrowed to petiole, margins wavy. |
7–30 cm; blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 12–35 cm. |
8–35 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1–10-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 yellow, bronze in age, lanceolate, 15–28 mm, not auriculate at base; stamens 8–12 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers yellow; style yellow, 6–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with very short, rounded lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
Capsules | oblong, 3–6 cm. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Erythronium montanum |
Erythronium pluriflorum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer, usually soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). | Flowering summer (Jun–Jul). |
Habitat | Montane and subalpine meadows, open coniferous forests | Open montane coniferous forests |
Elevation | (300–)800–2000 m ((1000–)2600–6600 ft) | 2300–2600 m (7500–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
OR; WA; BC
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CA |
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. Erythronium pluriflorum is known only from Madera County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 130. (1891) | Shevock: Madroño 37: 268, fig. 3. (1991) |
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