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Sierra fawn-lily, Sierra foothills fawn-lily

Bulbs

ovoid, 20–50 mm, producing bulbels (usually 1–3 per parent bulb) at ends of long, slender stolons.

Leaves

4–16 cm;

blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ± lanceolate, margins entire to wavy.

Scape

8–23 cm, branching just above leaves near ground level when flowers more than 1.

Inflorescences

1–4-flowered.

Flowers

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, 2–5 cm.

2n

= 24.

Erythronium multiscapideum

Phenology Flowering spring (Mar–Apr).
Habitat Open woods, brushy slopes, sometimes on serpentines
Elevation 400–1000 m (1300–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
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.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 161.
Parent taxa 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. montanum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Synonyms Fritillaria multiscapidea
Name authority (Kellogg) A. Nelson & Kennedy: Muhlenbergia 3: 137. (1908)
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