Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium albidum |
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Henderson's fawn-lily |
white fawnlily, white trout-lily |
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Bulbs | slender, 40–55 mm. |
ovoid, 15–30 mm; stolons 1–3, mostly on 1-leaved, nonflowering plants; flowering plants reproducing vegetatively by offshoots or droppers. |
Leaves | 10–25 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, oblong to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. |
8–22 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. |
Scape | reddish, 12–30 cm. |
7–20 cm. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered. |
1-flowered. |
Flowers | tepals violet to pink, darker at tips, dark purple at base, broadly lanceolate, 18–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 10–14 mm; filaments violet-purple, linear, slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers pale brown to purple; style violet, 6–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. |
tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, white, tinged pink, blue, or lavender abaxially, with yellow adaxial spot at base, lanceolate, 22–40 mm, auricles absent; stamens 10–20 mm; filaments yellow, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 15–25 mm; stigma lobes recurving, 1.5 mm. |
Capsules | obovoid, 2–4 cm. |
held erect at maturity, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex rounded to faintly apiculate or umbilicate. |
2n | = 24. |
= 44. |
Erythronium hendersonii |
Erythronium albidum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Mar–Apr). | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Dry woods and forest openings | Mesic bottomlands, upland forests, woodlands, clay and silt bottomlands, floodplain forests |
Elevation | 300–1600 m (1000–5200 ft) | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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AL; AR; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MN; MO; MS; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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Discussion | Erythronium albidum often forms extensive colonies in which nonflowering, 1-leaved plants far outnumber flowering, 2-leaved ones. It is very widespread in eastern North America, more common in the central states than E. americanum and often occurs in slightly drier sites. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 160. | FNA vol. 26, p. 163. |
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Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 479. (1887) | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 223. (1818) |
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