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Erythronium revolutum

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

golden fawn-lily, manyflower fawnlily, shuteye peak fawn lily

Bulbs

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

± ovoid, 40–75 mm.

Leaves

10–25 mm;

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

7–30 cm;

blade green, oblanceolate to elliptic, margins ± wavy.

Scape

15–40 cm.

8–35 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

1–10-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 yellow, bronze in age, lanceolate, 15–28 mm, not auriculate at base;

stamens 8–12 mm;

filaments yellow, slender;

anthers yellow;

style yellow, 6–8 mm;

stigma unlobed or with very short, rounded lobes shorter than 1 mm.

Capsules

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium pluriflorum

Phenology Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). Flowering summer (Jun–Jul).
Habitat Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests Open montane coniferous forests
Elevation 0–600(–1000) m [0–2000(–3300) ft] 2300–2600 m [7500–8500 ft]
Distribution
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CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Erythronium pluriflorum is known only from Madera County.

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

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. 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. 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) Shevock: Madroño 37: 268, fig. 3. (1991)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 158. Treatment authors: Geraldine A. Allen, Kenneth R. Robertson. FNA vol. 26, p. 159. Treatment authors: Geraldine A. Allen, Kenneth R. Robertson.
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