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: FRITILLARY Habit: Bulb with 1--several large fleshy scales, 0--many small scales. Stem: erect, simple (0 in non-flowering plants). Leaf: cauline, alternate, subopposite, or whorled below, sessile, linear to +- ovate (1 bulb-leaf in non-flowering plants). Inflorescence: raceme; bracts leaf-like. Flower: generally nodding, bell- or cup-shaped; perianth parts 6 in 2 whorls, each part with distinct glandular area in lower 1/2; stamens 6, included, attached at perianth base, anthers attached +- near middle; ovary +- sessile, style 1, +- entire or 3-branched. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal, thin-walled, +- rounded, 6-angled, or winged, chambers 3. Seed: many, 2 rows per chamber, flat, +- brown. Etymology: (Latin: dicebox, from fruit shape) Note: Bulbs of some eaten by Native Americans. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness Unabridged Reference: Turrill & Sealy 1980 Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34:1--275
Fritillaria affinis (Schult. & Schult. f.) Sealy
NATIVE Habit: Large bulb scales 2--5, small 2--20. Stem: 1--12 dm. Leaf: in 1--4 whorls of 2--8 below, alternate above, 4--16 cm, lance-linear to ovate. Flower: nodding; perianth parts 1--4 cm, oblong to ovate, brown-purple mottled yellow to pale yellow-green mottled purple, nectary 1/2--2/3 perianth, lanceolate, yellow with purple dots; style divided 1/2. Fruit: widely winged. Chromosomes: 2n=24,36,48. Ecology: Common. Oak or pine scrub, grassland; Elevation: < 1800 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaRF, n SNF, CW (exc SCoRI); Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, Idaho. Flowering Time: Mar--Jun Note: Highly variable; needs study; hybridizes with Fritillaria recurva. Synonyms: Fritillaria phaeanthera Purdy; Fritillaria affinis var. affinis; Fritillaria affinis var. tristulis (A.L. Grant) Ness, ined.; Fritillaria lanceolata Pursh, illeg.; Fritillaria lanceolata var. tristulis A.L. Grant, illeg. Listed in CNPS Inventory Jepson eFlora Author: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Fritillaria Next taxon: Fritillaria agrestis
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Botanical illustration including Fritillaria affinis
Citation for this treatment: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness 2012, Fritillaria affinis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=76930, accessed on January 25, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 25, 2025.
Geographic subdivisions for Fritillaria affinis:
NW, CaRF, n SNF, CW (exc SCoRI)
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