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dimpled trout-lily

Bulbs

ovoid, 10–25 mm;

stolons absent, or 1 per bulb on 1-leaved plants.

Leaves

5–17 cm;

blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ± flat, not glaucous, margins entire.

Scape

4–18 cm.

Inflorescences

1-flowered.

Flowers

tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, yellow, sometimes with brownish adaxial spots, variously tinged brown-purple abaxially, lanceolate, 13–30 mm, auricles absent;

stamens 9–18 mm;

filaments yellow, lanceolate;

anthers brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

pollen brown, purple, or infrequently yellow;

ovary apex indented;

style deciduous or forming small apiculum, ± terete, not yellow, 8–24 mm;

stigma lobes spreading, 1.2–1.7 mm.

Capsules

± resting on ground due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex indented, umbilicate, or rarely rounded.

2n

= 24.

Erythronium umbilicatum

Distribution
from USDA
s and e United States
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Stolons absent; West Virginia to Alabama, Georgia, and n Florida.
subsp. umbilicatum
1. Stolons present, 1 per bulb; North Carolina, Tennessee.
subsp. monostolum
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 162.
Parent taxa 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. revolutum, E. rostratum, E. taylorii, E. tuolumnense
Subordinate taxa
E. umbilicatum subsp. monostolum, E. umbilicatum subsp. umbilicatum
Name authority C. R. Parks & Hardin: Brittonia 15: 252. (1963)
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