Erythronium propullans
Erythronium helenae
Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily
Mount St. Helena fawn-lily, Pacific fawnlily, St. Helena fawn lily
ovoid, 10–25 mm;
stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants.
ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels.
4–13 cm;
blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire.
7–20 cm;
blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy.
3.9–12 cm.
12–30 cm.
1-flowered.
1–3-flowered.
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.
fragrant;
tepals ± white, bright yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base;
stamens 8–13 mm;
filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide;
anthers yellow;
style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm;
stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.
very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum.
obovoid, 2–4 cm.
= 24.
Erythronium propullans
Erythronium helenae
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.)
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