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

Tuolumne 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, 50–100 mm, readily forming sessile offsets.

Leaves

4–13 cm;

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

15–35 cm;

blade green, elliptic to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy.

Scape

3.9–12 cm.

± reddish, 15–35 cm.

Inflorescences

1-flowered.

usually 1–4-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, narrowly ovate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 12–16 mm;

filaments white to creamy white, slightly widened, 0.4–0.6 mm wide at base;

anthers yellow;

style ± white, 8–10 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 tuolumnense

Phenology Flowering spring. Flowering early spring (Mar).
Habitat Mesic floodplain woods Open woods, shady canyons
Elevation 300 m (1000 ft) 600–1000 m (2000–3300 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.

(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. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. umbilicatum
Name authority A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 153. (1930)
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