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Erythronium quinaultense

fawnlily, Olympic fawn-lily, quinault fawn-lily, quinault trout-lily
Bulbs

narrowly ovoid, 35–75 mm.
Leaves

12–20 cm;

blade green or faintly mottled with white or brown, lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy.
Scape

12–25 cm.
Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.
Flowers

tepals white proximally, shading to pink at outer margins, darkest toward tips, with yellow band at base, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 30–50 mm, inner with small auricles at base;

stamens 12–24 mm;

filaments white, flattened, slightly widened, linear to lanceolate, 1–2 mm wide;

anthers yellow;

style white, 10–18 mm;

stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 1–5 mm.
Capsules

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.
2n

= 48.

Erythronium quinaultense
Phenology Flowering late spring (May).
Habitat Openings and rocky ledges in coniferous forests
Elevation 500–900 m (1600–3000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WA
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Discussion

Erythronium quinaultense is a tetraploid species apparently derived from hybridization between E. montanum and E. revolutum. It is known only from the southwestern Olympic Peninsula.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 158.
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. purpurascens, E. pusaterii, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority G. A. Allen: Syst. Bot. 26: 269, fig. 3. (2001)
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