Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium oregonum |
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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
deer's tongue, giant fawn-lily, giant white fawn-lily, Oregon fawn-lily, white fawn lily, wild Easter 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. |
narrowly ovoid, 25–60 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
12–25 cm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ovate to broadly lanceolate, margins wavy. |
Scape | 3.9–12 cm. |
± reddish, 15–40 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–3-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 white to creamy white with yellow base at anthesis, sometimes pinkish in age, sometimes with red lines or bands, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–25 mm; filaments white, flattened, ± lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide; anthers cream to yellow; style white, 12–18 mm; stigma with recurved lobes 3–6 mm. |
Capsules | very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum. |
oblong to narrowly obovoid, 3–5 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium oregonum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Mesic floodplain woods | Open coniferous forests, rocky outcrops, oak woodlands, meadows |
Elevation | 300 m (1000 ft) | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
MN
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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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.) |
Forms from the southern part of the range with cream-white tepals and pale anthers have been described as subsp. leucandrum. This species is closely related to E. revolutum and occasionally hybridizes with it where their ranges meet. In addition, E. citrinum and E. hendersonii are reported to hybridize with E. oregonum in the southern part of its range. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 164. | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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Synonyms | E. giganteum subsp. leucandrum, E. oregonum subsp. leucandrum | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) | Applegate: Madroño 3: 99. (1935) |
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