Erythronium tuolumnense Applegate

Tuolumne fawnlily (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Erythronium

Characteristics

Bulbs ovoid, 50–100 mm, readily forming sessile offsets. Leaves 15–35 cm; blade green, elliptic to ovate, margins entire to ± wavy. Scape ± reddish, 15–35 cm. Inflorescences usually 1–4-flowered. Flowers: tepals yellow, narrowly ovate, 20–35 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–16 mm; filaments white to creamy white, slightly widened, 0.4–0.6 mm wide at base; anthers yellow; style ± white, 8–10 mm; stigma ± unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. Capsules obovoid, 2–4 cm.
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A bulb or corm plant. It grows 20-35 cm high and 10-15 cm wide. The corms are over 8 cm long. The leaves are bright green without mottling. The flowers occur as 4 on long stems. They are yellow with green centres.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.15 - 0.13
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.33
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A very rare plant in the wild, growing in chaparral, yellow pine forests and woodlands in the foothills at elevations of 300-600 metres
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It is a temperate plant. It is frost hardy. It suits hardiness zones 4-9.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 4-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses environmental use gene source
Edible bulbs roots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It is grown from bulbs. The bulb clumps are divided.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
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Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Images

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:96861-2
WFO ID wfo-0000766977
COL ID 3BFGY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Erythronium tuolumnense