Erythronium revolutum |
Erythronium pusaterii |
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coast fawn lily, mahogany fawn lily, pink fawn-lily |
hocket lakes fawn lily, Kaweah fawn lily, Kaweah Lakes fawn-lily |
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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 |
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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 |
CA; OR; WA; BC; generally within 100 km of Pacific Coast
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CA |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. | FNA vol. 26, p. 159. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Erythronium | Liliaceae > Erythronium |
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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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