Erythronium taylorii
Madroño 44: 360, fig. 1. 1998.
Common names: Taylor’s fawn-lily
Bulbs narrowly ovoid, 40–70 mm, often forming sessile offsets. Leaves 18–35 cm; blade green, elliptic to oblanceolate, margins wavy. Scape 25–40 cm. Inflorescences 1–4 (–8) -flowered. Flowers: tepals white, proximal 1/2–2/3 bright-yellow, becoming pinkish in age, lanceolate, 25–45 mm, inner auriculate at base; stamens 10–16 mm; filaments yellow, slender; anthers cream colored; style white to cream, 9–11 mm; stigma ± unlobed or with lobes shorter than 1 mm. Capsules obovoid, 2–4 cm.
Phenology: Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat: Forest openings, rocky ledges
Elevation: 1300–1400 m
Discussion
Erythronium taylorii is known only from Tuolumne County in the central Sierra Nevada.
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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cream colored +
basifixed +
loculicidal +
appressed +
petiolate +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
narrowed +
green +
narrow +
absent +
1;several +
additional +
obovoid +
Taylor’s fawn-lily +
solid +
Calif. +
vertical +
fleshy +
yellow +
slender +
showy +
single +
capsular +
erect +
1-4(-8)-flowered +
racemose +
auriculate +
simple +
persistent +
wavy +
sessile +
(2-)3(-4)-locular +
superior +
many;several +
showy +
Madroño +
1998 +
persistent +
elongating +
wind-distributed +
angular +
brown +
ovoid +
attached +
beadlike +
small +
flowering +
more sparingly without than those extensive vegetative reproduction +
staminodial +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
attached +
Erythronium taylorii +
Erythronium +
species +
pinkish;bright-yellow;white +
distinct +
absent +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
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lanceolate;ovate +
scapose +
perennial +
woody +