Erythronium propullans |
Erythronium tuolumnense |
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Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
Tuolumne 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. |
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 |
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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 |
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.) |
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 | ||
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 153. (1930) |
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