Zigadenus glaberrimus |
Zigadenus mogollonensis |
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sandbog death camas |
mogoll deathcamas, Mogollon death camas |
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Habit | Plants 6–12 dm, from thick, twisted rhizomes. | Plants 4.5–8.5 dm, from bulbs; bulbs not clumped, tunicate, narrowly ovoid. |
Leaves | blade sometimes becoming reddish brown with age, 19–42 cm × 5–20 mm, glaucous abaxially. |
proximal blades 25–45 cm × 10–20 mm. |
Inflorescences | loosely paniculate, 30–75-flowered, with 2–6 ascending branches, pyramidal, 10–60 × 5–12 cm. |
racemose, occasionally paniculate, 10–30-flowered, with 1–3 branches. |
Flowers | perianth hypogynous, 20–30 mm diam.; tepals persistent in fruit, white to cream colored, ovate to lanceolate, 9–15 × 3–5 mm, somewhat contracted at base; glands 2, elliptic, margins thickened; pedicel bracts ovate, 5–15 mm. |
nodding; perianth perigynous, campanulate, 8–20 mm diam.; tepals greenish, often tinged with purple, ovate to elliptic, 12–16 × 7–9 mm, somewhat narrowed at base; gland 1, obcordate, thick; pedicel recurved at anthesis, erect in fruit, bracts often tinged with purple or red, longer than pedicel, apex acute. |
Capsules | conic, 10–15 mm. |
12–15 mm. |
2n | = 52. |
= 32. |
Zigadenus glaberrimus |
Zigadenus mogollonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering mid Jul–Sep. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Pine bogs, savannas, sandy pinelands | Mixed coniferous and spruce-fir forests of Mogollon Mountains |
Elevation | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) | 2500–3200 m (8200–10500 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; VA
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NM |
Discussion | Zigadenus mogollonensis seems morphologically most similar to 13. Z. virescens and Z. volcanicus Bentham, a species from Guatemala. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 83. | FNA vol. 26, p. 88. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Zigadenus | Liliaceae > Zigadenus |
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Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 214, plate 22. (1803) | W. J. Hess & Sivinski: Sida 16: 390, fig. 1. (1995) |
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