Erythronium helenae
Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 188. 1933.
Common names: Mount St. Helena fawn-lily
IllustratedEndemic
Bulbs ovoid, 30–55 mm, sometimes producing sessile bulbels. Leaves 7–20 cm; blade mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, broadly lanceolate to ovate, margins ± wavy. Scape 12–30 cm. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered. Flowers fragrant; tepals ± white, bright-yellow at base, pinkish in age, lanceolate to ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 8–13 mm; filaments ± yellow, linear, ± slender, less than 0.8 mm wide; anthers yellow; style ± white, often bent to one side, 5–8 mm; stigma unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. Capsules obovoid, 2–4 cm. 2n = 24.
Phenology: Flowering spring (Mar–Apr).
Habitat: Dry woods or scrub, on serpentines
Elevation: 500–1200 m
Distribution
Calif. (vicinity of Mount St. Helena)
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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yellow +
basifixed +
loculicidal +
appressed +
small +
petiolate +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
narrowed +
mottled +
narrow +
absent +
1;several +
additional +
sessile +
obovoid +
Mount St. Helena fawn-lily +
solid +
Calif. (vicinity of Mount St. Helena) +
vertical +
fleshy +
yellow +
slender +
fragrant +
showy +
single +
capsular +
erect +
Present +
1-3-flowered +
racemose +
auriculate +
simple +
persistent +
? (?) +
(2-)3(-4)-locular +
superior +
many;several +
showy +
Contr. Dudley Herb. +
1933 +
persistent +
elongating +
wind-distributed +
angular +
brown +
ovoid +
attached +
beadlike +
small +
flowering +
more sparingly without than those extensive vegetative reproduction +
staminodial +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
irregular +
wavy +
white +
attached +
bent +
Erythronium helenae +
Erythronium +
species +
pinkish;bright-yellow;white +
distinct +
absent +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
colors +
lanceolate;ovate +
scapose +
perennial +
woody +