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Erythronium revolutum

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

white fawnlily, white trout-lily

Bulbs

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

ovoid, 15–30 mm;

stolons 1–3, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by offshoots or droppers.

Leaves

10–25 mm;

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

8–22 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire.

Scape

15–40 cm.

7–20 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

1-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.

tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, white, tinged pink, blue, or lavender abaxially, with yellow adaxial spot at base, lanceolate, 22–40 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 10–20 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers yellow;

pollen yellow;

style white, 15–25 mm;

stigma lobes recurving, 1.5 mm.

Capsules

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.

held erect at maturity, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate.

2n

= 44.

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium albidum

Phenology Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). Flowering spring.
Habitat Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests
Elevation 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) 0–300 m (0–1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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from FNA
AL; AR; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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Discussion

Erythronium albidum often forms extensive colonies in which nonflowering, 1-leaved plants far outnumber flowering, 2-leaved ones. It is very widespread in eastern North America, more common in the central states than E. americanum and often occurs in slightly drier sites.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 158. FNA vol. 26, p. 163.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Erythronium 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
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. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818)
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