Common Name: LILY FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb from membranous bulb or scaly rhizome. Stem: underground or erect, branched or not. Leaf: basal or cauline, alternate, subopposite, or whorled. Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, +- umbel-like or not. Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 generally petal-like whorls, often showy; stamens 3 or 6, filaments free or +- fused to perianth, anthers attached at base or near middle; ovary superior or +- so, style 1, entire or 3-lobed. Fruit: capsule or berry. Seed: 3--many, flat or angled, brown to black. Genera In Family: 16 genera, 635 species: northern temperate. Note: Users strongly encouraged to protect plants by working around need to see underground parts in using keys, e.g., by trying both leads in couplets solely dependent on such characters. Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill. an historical waif in California. Other TJM (1993) taxa moved to Agavaceae (Agave, Camassia, Chlorogalum, Hastingsia, Hesperocallis, Hesperoyucca, Leucocrinum, Yucca), Alliaceae (Allium, Ipheion, Nothoscordum), Amaryllidaceae (Amaryllis, Narcissus, Pancratium), Asparagaceae (Asparagus), Asphodelaceae (Aloe, Asphodelus, Kniphofia), Melanthiaceae (Pseudotrillium, Stenanthium, Toxicoscordion, Trillium, Veratrum, Xerophyllum), Nartheciaceae (Narthecium), Ruscaceae (Maianthemum, Nolina), Smilacaceae (Smilax), Tecophilaeaceae (Odontostomum), Themidaceae (Androstephium, Bloomeria, Brodiaea, Dichelostemma, Muilla, Triteleia), and Tofieldiaceae (Triantha). North American species of Disporum now in Prosartes. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal, except as noted Scientific Editor: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Etymology: (Greek: crooked foot, from curving pedicel)
Scoliopus bigelovii Torr.
NATIVE Habit: Rhizome short, slender. Stem: short, underground. Leaf: 2(3) basal, sheathing, 5--20 cm, 5--10 cm wide, elliptic to oblong, many-veined, mottled. Inflorescence: umbel, subsessile; peduncle underground; pedicels 1--12, 8--20 cm, appearing scapose, 3-angled, twisting and recurving so fruit touches soil. Flower: ill-scented when fresh, +- green or +- yellow, mottled, heavily lined purple or dark brown; perianth parts 6 in 2 very different whorls; sepals 14--17 mm, narrowly ovate, spreading, deeply concave near base; petals +- = sepals, linear, erect or arching over ovary; stamens 3, 5--6 mm, attached to sepals; ovary 3-angled, chamber 1, style branches 3, 5--6 mm, linear, +- recurved or spreading. Fruit: capsule-like, 15--18 mm, elliptic, thin-walled, irregularly dehiscent or indehiscent. Seed: +- 3 mm, oblong, with food body. Chromosomes: n=7,8. Ecology: Moist, shady redwood forest; Elevation: < 1100 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoRO, n CCo, SnFrB. Flowering Time: Feb--Mar Jepson eFlora Author: Dale W. McNeal Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Scoliopus Next taxon: Streptopus
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Botanical illustration including Scoliopus bigelovii
Citation for this treatment: Dale W. McNeal 2012, Scoliopus bigelovii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43824, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.
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