Fritillaria glauca |
Fritillaria pluriflora |
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Siskiyou fritillaria, Siskiyou fritillary, Siskiyou missionbells |
Adobe-lily |
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Bulb scales | large 3–9; small 1–9. |
large 1–12; small 0–2. |
Stem | 0.8–2 dm. |
1.5–4.5 dm. |
Leaves | 2–4, alternate, 3.5–9 cm; blade lanceolate-oblong, sickle-shaped, glaucous. |
3–10, alternate, clustered near ground, 6–15 cm; blade elliptic to obovate-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, not noticeably fragrant; tepals pinkish purple, obovate, 2–3.5 cm, apex rounded to acute, not recurved; nectaries lavender, narrowly linear, 2/3 tepal length; style unbranched. |
Capsules | broadly winged. |
obtusely angled. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Fritillaria glauca |
Fritillaria pluriflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Serpentine talus slopes | Adobe soil of interior foothills |
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 | Of conservation concern. Fritillaria pluriflora is considered rare and endangered in California and is in cultivation. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 169. | FNA vol. 26, p. 170. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Fritillaria | Liliaceae > Fritillaria |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Greene: Erythea 1: 153. (1893) | Torrey ex Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 338. (1857) |
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