Erythronium quinaultense |
Erythronium propullans |
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fawnlily, Olympic fawn-lily, quinault fawn-lily, quinault trout-lily |
Minnesota dwarf trout-lily, Minnesota fawnlily, Minnesota trout lily |
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Bulbs | narrowly ovoid, 35–75 mm. |
ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants. |
Leaves | 12–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with white or brown, lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. |
4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
Scape | 12–25 cm. |
3.9–12 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1-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. |
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. |
Capsules | oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum. |
2n | = 48. |
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Erythronium quinaultense |
Erythronium propullans |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring (May). | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Openings and rocky ledges in coniferous forests | Mesic floodplain woods |
Elevation | 500–900 m (1600–3000 ft) | 300 m (1000 ft) |
Distribution |
WA
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MN
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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.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 164. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | G. A. Allen: Syst. Bot. 26: 269, fig. 3. (2001) | A. Gray: Amer. Naturalist 5: 300, fig. 74. (1871) |
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