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Erythronium revolutum

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

hocket lakes fawn lily, Kaweah fawn lily, Kaweah Lakes fawn-lily

Bulbs

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

narrowly ovoid, 40–60 mm.

Leaves

10–25 mm;

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

10–35 cm;

blade green, lanceolate, margins ± wavy.

Scape

15–40 cm.

12–40 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

1–8-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, proximal 1/2–2/3 bright yellow, becoming pinkish in age, lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner auriculate at base;

stamens 8–15 mm;

filaments ± white, slender;

anthers yellow;

style ± white, 7–10 mm;

stigma ± unlobed, or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.

Capsules

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium pusaterii

Phenology Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). Flowering late spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests Meadows, open forests, rocky ledges
Elevation 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) 2100–2500 m (6900–8200 ft)
Distribution
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CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Erythronium pusaterii is known only from Tulare County in the southern Sierra Nevada.

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

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 158. FNA vol. 26, p. 159.
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. pluriflorum, E. propullans, E. purpurascens, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Synonyms E. grandiflorum subsp. pusaterii
Name authority Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) (Munz & J. T. Howell) Shevock: Madroño 37: 264. (1991)
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