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Erythronium revolutum

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

pilot ridge fawn lily, Taylor's fawn-lily

Bulbs

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

narrowly ovoid, 40–70 mm, often forming sessile offsets.

Leaves

10–25 mm;

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

18–35 cm;

blade green, elliptic to oblanceolate, margins wavy.

Scape

15–40 cm.

25–40 cm.

Inflorescences

1–3-flowered.

1–4(–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 10–16 mm;

filaments yellow, slender;

anthers cream colored;

style white to cream, 9–11 mm;

stigma ± unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm.

Capsules

oblong to obovoid, 3–6 cm.

obovoid, 2–4 cm.

Erythronium revolutum

Erythronium taylorii

Phenology Flowering early spring (Mar–Apr). Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Shaded stream banks, river terraces, wet places in forests Forest openings, rocky ledges
Elevation 0–600(–1000) m (0–2000(–3300) ft) 1300–1400 m (4300–4600 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

Erythronium taylorii is known only from Tuolumne County in the central 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. pusaterii, E. quinaultense, E. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. tuolumnense, E. umbilicatum
Name authority Smith: in A. Rees, Cycl. 13: Erythronium no. 3. (1809) Shevock & G. A. Allen: Madroño 44: 360, fig. 1. (1998)
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