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Fritillaria pudica (Pursh) Spreng.

Yellow fritillary (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Fritillaria

Characteristics

A small herb that keeps growing from year to year. It is 10-30 cm high. There are only a few leaves and they are narrow and oblong. The flowers are pale yellowish-green. They have a faint purple stripe. The flowers turn orange or brown with age. The flowers usually occur singly and are nodding. They are cup shaped. The fruit is a dry papery capsule. It has many seeds.
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Bulb scales: large 4–5; small 85–125. Stem 0.7–3 dm. Leaves 2–8, subopposite to scattered, 3–20 cm; blade linear to lanceolate. Flowers nodding; tepals yellow to orange, some lined brown, aging to brick red, 0.8–2.2 cm; nectaries near base of tepals, green, elliptic to round; style unbranched. Capsules angled. 2n = 24, 26.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.05
Mature height (meter) 0.2
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.2
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Grassland and sagebrush deserts to mixed coniferous forests, also on stony mountain slopes, 400-2000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows on dry hillsides and stony mountain slopes.
Light 5-8
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 4-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 3-6

Usage

Caution: Most fritillarias are poisonous if eaten. The bulbs and offsets have been used as food. The are eaten raw, boiled, or steamed. They can be dried and stored.
Uses forage medicinal poison
Edible bulbs pods roots seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 330 - 540
Germination temperacture (C°) 9 - -7
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -40
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Fritillaria pudica leaf picture by Yang Chen (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Fritillaria pudica flower picture by Yang Chen (cc-by-sa)
Fritillaria pudica flower picture by Elizabeth Shakespear (cc-by-sa)
Fritillaria pudica flower picture by Becca sledgurl (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Fritillaria pudica world distribution map, present in Canada, Colombia, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1109810-2
WFO ID wfo-0000768035
COL ID 6JPWB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Fritillaria utahensis Lilium pudicum Ochrocodon pudicus Tulipa pudica Theresia pudica Fritillaria dichroa Fritillaria leucella Fritillaria oregonensis Fritillaria oreodoxa Fritillaria washingtonensis Amblirion pudicum Amblirion pudicum var. biflorum Fritillaria pudica
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