Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium elegans |
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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
Coast Range fawn lily, elegant fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants. |
slender, 30–50 mm. |
Leaves | 4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. |
Scape | 3.9–12 cm. |
10–30 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–2(–4)-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals 4–6, strongly reflexed at anthesis, pale pink to white, darker abaxially, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, auricles absent; stamens 2–6, 6–8 mm; filaments white, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 6–10 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
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 | very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum. |
obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 48. |
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Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium elegans |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late spring (May–Jun). |
Habitat | Mesic floodplain woods | Meadows and open coniferous forests |
Elevation | 300 m (1000 ft) | 800–1000 m (2600–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
MN
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OR
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Erythronium propullans is known only from Goodhue and Rice counties. It often forms extensive colonies in which flowering plants are sometimes more abundant than nonflowering, 1-leaved ones, and sometimes the reverse. It grows mixed with E. albidum (J. A. Banks 1980), and putative hybrids between them have been reported (T. Morley 1988). Flowers frequently have fewer than six tepals and stamens (C. O. Rosendahl 1919), and may occasionally have only two carpels. (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. 164. | FNA vol. 26, p. 157. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) | P. C. Hammond & K. L. Chambers: Madroño 32: 49, fig. 1. (1985) |
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