Erythronium purpurascens |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada fawn-lily |
Sierra fawn-lily, Sierra foothills fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 25–40 mm. |
ovoid, 20–50 mm, producing bulbels (usually 1–3 per parent bulb) at ends of long, slender stolons. |
Leaves | 6–15 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. |
4–16 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ± lanceolate, margins entire to wavy. |
Scape | 7–20 cm. |
8–23 cm, branching just above leaves near ground level when flowers more than 1. |
Inflorescences | 1–6-flowered. |
1–4-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. |
flowering individuals generally uncommon in populations, most plants 1-leaved and vegetative; tepals white to cream with yellow base, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 16–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 10–15 mm; filaments white, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers white to cream; style white, 10–13 mm; stigma unlobed or with recurved lobes 1–4 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Erythronium purpurascens |
Erythronium multiscapideum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places | Open woods, brushy slopes, sometimes on serpentines |
Elevation | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) | 400–1000 m (1300–3300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA
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Discussion | Erythronium multiscapideum is unusual among western species (and resembles some eastern species) in its tendency to reproduce vegetatively through the production of bulbels at the ends of stolons. It is similar in many respects to E. californicum and sometimes intergrades with it, resulting in occasional populations with the bulb characteristics of one species and the inflorescence branching pattern of the other. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. | FNA vol. 26, p. 161. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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Synonyms | Fritillaria multiscapidea | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 277. (1877) | (Kellogg) A. Nelson & Kennedy: Muhlenbergia 3: 137. (1908) |
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