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.
Common Name: FAWN LILY Habit: Bulb elongate of 1--2 fleshy scales, generally with small, bead-like parts of persistent rhizome. Leaf: 2 (1 in non-flowering pl), basal, 6--35 cm, lanceolate to ovate (solitary basal leaf wider), narrowed to petiole, often mottled, glabrous; margin entire to wavy. Inflorescence: peduncled raceme; flowers 1--10; bracts 0. Flower: showy, generally nodding; perianth parts 6, similar, free, +- lanceolate, +- recurved; stamens 6; style 1, straight or bent downward, stigma entire to 3-lobed. Fruit: capsule, ovoid to oblong. Seed: +- ovoid, +- angular, brown. Chromosomes: n=12. Etymology: (Greek: red, from flowers of some) Note: Leaf, flower markings to be noted when fresh, because of fading in pressed specimens. eFlora Treatment Author: Geraldine A. Allen & Margriet Wetherwax Unabridged Reference: Applegate 1935 Madroño 3:58--113; Shevock et al. 1990 Madroño 37:261--273; York et al. 2015 Madroño 62:158--166
Erythronium hendersonii S. Watson
NATIVE Habit: Bulb 40--55 mm, slender. Leaf: 10--25 cm, oblong to ovate, entire to +- wavy-margined, mottled brown or white. Inflorescence: peduncle 12--30 cm, +- red to +- purple; flowers 1--4. Flower: perianth parts 18--35 mm, widely lanceolate, violet to pink (darker toward tip) with dark purple zone at base, inner with small sac-like folds at base; stamens 10--14 mm, filaments slender, purple, anthers pale brown to purple; style 6--8 mm, violet, stigma entire or lobes < 1 mm. Ecology: Dry woodland, openings; Elevation: 300--1600 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR; Distribution Outside California: southwestern Oregon. Flowering Time: Apr--Jul Jepson eFlora Author: Geraldine A. Allen & Margriet Wetherwax Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Erythronium helenae Next taxon: Erythronium klamathense
Citation for this treatment: Geraldine A. Allen & Margriet Wetherwax 2018, Erythronium hendersonii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=25179, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
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