Erythronium revolutum |
Erythronium helenae |
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coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily |
Mount St. Helena fawn-lily, Pacific fawnlily, St. Helena fawn lily |
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| Bulbs | narrowly ovoid, 35–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels. |
| Leaves | 10–25 mm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
7–20 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. |
| Scape | 15–40 cm. |
12–30 cm. |
| Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
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. |
fragrant; tepals ± white, bright yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–13 mm; filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers yellow; style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
| Capsules | oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
| 2n | = 24. |
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Erythronium revolutum |
Erythronium helenae |
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| Phenology | Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). |
| Habitat | Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests | Dry woods or scrub, on serpentines |
| Elevation | 0–600(–1000) m [0–2000(–3300) ft] | 500–1200 m [1600–3900 ft] |
| Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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Calif (vicinity of Mount St Helena) |
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| Name authority | Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 188. (1933) |
| Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. |
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