Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium purpurascens |
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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada 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, 25–40 mm. |
Leaves | 4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
6–15 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 3.9–12 cm. |
7–20 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–6-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, bright yellow on proximal 1/3, pinkish purple in age, lanceolate, 10–20 mm, not auriculate at base; stamens 8–12 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers cream to yellow; style yellow, 4–5 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
Capsules | very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium purpurascens |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Mesic floodplain woods | Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places |
Elevation | 300 m (1000 ft) | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
MN
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CA
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 164. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 277. (1877) |
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