Flora of North America species comparison

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Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium hendersonii ×erythronium oregonum
Erythronium revolutum

coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily
Bulbs

narrowly ovoid, 35–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets.

Leaves

10–25 mm;

blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy.

Scape

15–40 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

Flowers

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

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium hendersonii ×erythronium oregonum
Phenology Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr).
Habitat Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests
Elevation 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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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. quinaultense, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809)
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