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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily

golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily

Bulbs

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants.

± ovoid, 40–75 mm.

Leaves

4–13 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire.

7–30 cm;

blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy.

Scape

3.9–12 cm.

8–35 cm.

Inflorescences

1-flowered.

1–10-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 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

very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

Erythronium propullans

Erythronium pluriflorum

Phenology Flowering spring. Flowering summer (Jun–Jul).
Habitat Mesic floodplain woods Open montane coniferous forests
Elevation 300 m (1000 ft) 2300–2600 m (7500–8500 ft)
Distribution
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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.

Erythronium pluriflorum is known only from Madera County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 164. FNA vol. 26, p. 159.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Erythronium 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. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. pluriflorum, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
E. albidum, E. americanum, E. californicum, E. citrinum, E. elegans, E. grandiflorum, E. helenae, E. hendersonii, E. klamathense, E. mesochoreum, E. montanum, E. multiscapideum, E. oregonum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) Shevock: Madroño 37: 268, fig. 3. (1991)
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