Flora of North America species comparison

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Erythronium purpurascens

purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada fawn-lily
Bulbs

slender, 25–40 mm.
Leaves

6–15 cm;

blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy.
Scape

7–20 cm.
Inflorescences

1–6-flowered.
Flowers

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

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

Erythronium purpurascens
Phenology Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug).
Habitat Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places
Elevation 1500–2700 m [4900–8900 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 159.
Parent taxa 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. propullans, E. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 277. (1877)
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