Erythronium helenae |
Erythronium klamathense |
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Mount St. Helena fawn-lily, Pacific fawnlily, St. Helena fawn lily |
Klamath fawn-lily |
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Bulbs | ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels. |
slender, 25–40 mm. |
Leaves | 7–20 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. |
6–17 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, ± folded along midvein, margins entire to wavy. |
Scape | 12–30 cm. |
6–20 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
1–3-flowered. |
Flowers | fragrant; tepals ± white, bright yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–13 mm; filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers yellow; style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
tepals 2/3 or more white, with yellow zone at base, ± pinkish in age, broadly lanceolate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–14 mm; filaments white, slender; anthers ± yellow; style white, 4–9 mm; stigma ± unlobed. |
Capsules | obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
narrowly obovoid, 2–5 cm. |
2n | = 24. |
= 24. |
Erythronium helenae |
Erythronium klamathense |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering late spring to summer (Apr–Jun). |
Habitat | Dry woods or scrub, on serpentines | Montane meadows, openings in coniferous forests |
Elevation | 500–1200 m (1600–3900 ft) | 1200–1900 m (3900–6200 ft) |
Distribution |
Calif (vicinity of Mount St Helena) |
CA; OR
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. | FNA vol. 26, p. 158. |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 188. (1933) | Applegate: Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 151. (1930) |
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