Flora of North America species comparison

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Prosartes trachycarpa

rough-fruit fairy-bells, rough-fruit mandarin, Sierra fairy-bells, wart-berry fairy bells, wartberry
Habit Plants 3–8 dm, crisp-pubescent, glabrate or glabrous with age.
Stems

sparingly branched.
Leaves

4–12 × 2–5 cm;

blade ovate to oblong-lanceolate, subcordate to oblique basally, abaxial surface and margins moderately pubescent, hairs scattered, flattened, apex acute to short-acuminate, with 7–9 prominent veins.
Flowers

1–2(–3);

perianth narrowly campanulate;

tepals creamy to greenish white, narrowly oblanceolate, 8–15 mm;

stamens mostly exserted;

filaments filiform, 10–15 mm;

anthers 3–4(–5) mm;

ovary broadly ovoid to obovoid, becoming 3-lobed and obpyriform after anthesis, finely papillose, ovules 2–6 per locule, horizontal;

style 0.9–1.2 cm, glabrous or pubescent;

stigma unlobed or 3-lobed.
Berries

reddish orange to bright red, 6–12(–18)-seeded, depressed-globose, 12–18 mm, strongly papillose.
Seeds

4–5 mm.
2n

= 22. 

Prosartes trachycarpa
Phenology Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat Rich, shady deciduous forests, aspen groves to open coniferous forests
Elevation 300–2500 m (1000–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; ID; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; ON; SK
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Discussion

The recently discovered populations of Prosartes trachycarpa in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan (E. J. Judziewicz et al. 1997), are noteworthy disjunctions for this otherwise western species.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 144.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Prosartes
Sibling taxa
P. hookeri, P. lanuginosa, P. maculata, P. smithii
Synonyms Disporum trachycarpum, Disporum trachycarpum var. subglabrum
Name authority S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 344. (1871)
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