Erythronium revolutum |
Erythronium purpurascens |
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coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily |
purple fawn lily, Sierra Nevada fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | narrowly ovoid, 35–50 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. |
slender, 25–40 mm. |
Leaves | 10–25 mm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
6–15 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, margins ± wavy. |
Scape | 15–40 cm. |
7–20 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1–6-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 white, bright yellow on proximal 1/3, pinkish purple in age, lanceolate, 10–20 mm, not auriculate at base; stamens 8–12 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers cream to yellow; style yellow, 4–5 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
Capsules | oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm. |
obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
Erythronium revolutum |
Erythronium purpurascens |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering summer, soon after snowmelt (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests | Open coniferous forests, meadows, rocky places |
Elevation | 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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CA
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 277. (1877) |
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