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 shastense D.A. York, J.K. Nelson, & D.W. Taylor
NATIVE Habit: Bulb 25--95 mm, slender, ovoid to elongate. Leaf: 12--26 cm, lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, +- wavy-margined, mottled white or brown. Inflorescence: peduncle (13)24--30 cm; flowers 1--3, spreading (nodding). Flower: perianth parts 24--41(45) mm, lanceolate, white with yellow base, +- pink in bud, fading pinkish to purplish, inner with sac-like folds at base on adaxial surfaces; stamens 9--12(16) mm, filaments 5--7(11) mm, 0.2--0.5 mm wide, white to yellowish, anthers yellow; style 8--14 mm, white, generally bent downward, stigma entire to lobed, lobes generally < 2 mm. Fruit: 1.3--3.2 cm. Ecology: North-facing, shaded limestone outcrops in forest openings; Elevation: 330--1020 m. Bioregional Distribution: e KR. Flowering Time: Feb--Apr 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 revolutum Next taxon: Erythronium taylorii
Citation for this treatment: Geraldine A. Allen & Margriet Wetherwax 2018, Erythronium shastense, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 6, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=100791, accessed on January 22, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 22, 2025.
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