Erythronium elegans P.C.Hammond & K.L.Chambers

Coast range fawnlily (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Erythronium

Characteristics

Bulbs slender, 30–50 mm. Leaves 7–20 cm; blade green or faintly mottled with brown or white, narrowly ovate, margins often wavy. Scape 10–30 cm. Inflorescences 1–2(–4)-flowered. Flowers: tepals: inner ± white, outer ± white and tinged (often strongly) with pink, especially abaxially and along midline, becoming more generally pinkish with age, both inner and outer with yellow band at base, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 20–40 mm, abaxial surfaces and outer tepals often darker, inner auriculate at base; stamens 13–22 mm; filaments white, flattened, slightly widened, linear to lanceolate, 0.8–2 mm wide; anthers yellow; style white, 10–20 mm; stigma with slender, usually recurved lobes 2–4 mm. Capsules obovoid to oblong, 2–5 cm. 2n = 48.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.3
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Flower color
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Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
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Distribution

Erythronium elegans world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:276828-2
WFO ID wfo-0000766917
COL ID 3BFFC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Erythronium elegans