Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium taylorii |
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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
pilot ridge fawn lily, Taylor's 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. |
narrowly ovoid, 40–70 mm, often forming sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
18–35 cm; blade green, elliptic to oblanceolate, margins wavy. |
Scape | 3.9–12 cm. |
25–40 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
1–4(–8)-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, proximal 1/2–2/3 bright yellow, becoming pinkish in age, lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner auriculate at base; stamens 10–16 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers cream colored; style white to cream, 9–11 mm; stigma ± unlobed or with 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 taylorii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Mesic floodplain woods | Forest openings, rocky ledges |
Elevation | 300 m (1000 ft) | 1300–1400 m (4300–4600 ft) |
Distribution |
MN
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CA |
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.) |
Erythronium taylorii is known only from Tuolumne County in the central Sierra Nevada. (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 | ||
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) | Shevock & G. A. Allen: Madroño 44: 360, fig. 1. (1998) |
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