Calochortus plummerae

Greene

Pittonia 2: 70. 1890.

Common names: Plummer’s mariposa-lily
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 140. Mentioned on page 121.

Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. Stems slender, usually branching, 3–6 dm. Leaves: basal withering; blade linear to lanceolate, 2–4 dm. Inflorescences 2–6-flowered; bracts resembling distal cauline leaves. Flowers erect; perianth open, broadly campanulate; sepals lanceolate, 3–5 cm, glabrous or with a few hairs at base, apex long-tapering; petals pale-pink to rose, drying purplish, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–4 cm, glabrous distally or nearly so, rarely fringed, with conspicuous, long, yellow hairs in broad median band, margins dentate; glands round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, bordered by ring of dense, obscuring, orange hairs; filaments 9–11 mm, ± equaling anthers; anthers lanceolate-linear, apex acute to somewhat short-tipped. Capsules erect, linear, angled, 4–8 cm, apex acute. Seeds light beige. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–mid summer.
Habitat: Dry rocky slopes, often in brush, chaparral, pine forest
Elevation: 0–1700 m

Discussion

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pseudobasifixed +  and basifixed +
lanceolate-linear +
short-tipped +
acute +  and long-tapering +
P. L. Fiedler +  and R. K. Zebell +
Greene +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
petiole-like +
dilated +
reticulate-veined +  and parallel-veined +
linear +  and lanceolate +
sheathing +  and involucrate +
1;several +
tunicate +  and scaly +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
Plummer’s mariposa-lily +
0–1700 m +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
winged +  and capsular +
globular +, oblong +, linear +  and 3-angled +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
depressed +  and round +
Dry rocky slopes, often in brush, chaparral, pine forest +
orange +  and yellow +
conspicuous +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
persistent +
proximalmost +
reduced +
many;several +
campanulate +
purplish +, pale-pink +  and rose +
distinct +
fringed;broadly cuneate;obovate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Flowering late spring–mid summer. +
wind-distributed +
light beige +
distinct +
with a few hairs +  and glabrous +
lanceolate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
adnate +  and free +
staminodial +
3 +, 4 +  and 6 +
glaucous +  and glabrous +
slender +
3 +  and 1 +
Calochortus plummerae +
Calochortus +
species +
connate +  and distinct +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
3 +  and 2 +