Fritillaria glauca |
Fritillaria agrestis |
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Siskiyou fritillaria, Siskiyou fritillary, Siskiyou missionbells |
stink bells |
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Bulb scales | large 3–9; small 1–9. |
large 2–9; small 0–2. |
Stem | 0.8–2 dm. |
3–6 dm. |
Leaves | 2–4, alternate, 3.5–9 cm; blade lanceolate-oblong, sickle-shaped, glaucous. |
5–12, alternate, crowded near proximal center of stem, 5–15 cm; blade linear to lanceolate-oblong. |
Flowers | nodding; tepals purplish or greenish marked with yellow, lanceolate-oblong, 1.5–2.5 cm, apex not recurved; nectaries green with maroon dots, broadly lanceolate, less than 1/2 tepal length; style obviously branched for 1/2 its length, branches longer than 1.5 mm. |
nodding, odor definitely unpleasant; tepals greenish to purplish brown adaxially, white or yellow abaxially, ovate, 1.8–3.5 cm, apex not recurved; nectaries prominent, green, narrowly linear, forming narrow band 2/3 to equaling tepal length; style obviously branched for 1/2 its length, branches longer than 1.5 mm. |
Capsules | broadly winged. |
angled. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Fritillaria glauca |
Fritillaria agrestis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Serpentine talus slopes | Depressions with clay or other heavy soils |
Elevation | 600–2100 m (2000–6900 ft) | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA
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Discussion | This species is uncommon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 169. | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Fritillaria | Liliaceae > Fritillaria |
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Synonyms | F. biflora var. agrestis | |
Name authority | Greene: Erythea 1: 153. (1893) | Greene: Erythea 3: 67. (1895) |
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