Erythronium purpurascens |
Erythronium revolutum |
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purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada fawn-lily |
coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 25–40 mm. |
narrowly ovoid, 35–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
Leaves | 6–15 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. |
10–25 mm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
Scape | 7–20 cm. |
15–40 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–6-flowered. |
1–3-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. |
tepals uniformly clear violet-pink at anthesis, with yellow banding at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens ± appressed to style, 12–22 mm; filaments white to pink (darkening with age), flattened, ± lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide; anthers bright yellow; style white to pink, 12–18 mm; stigma with slender recurved lobes 4–6 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
Erythronium purpurascens |
Erythronium revolutum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). | Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). |
Habitat | Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places | Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests |
Elevation | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) | 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 277. (1877) | Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) |
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