Calochortus macrocarpus

Striped Mormons tulip ( Calochortus macrocarpus )

The Mormons Striped tulip ( Calochortus macrocarpus ) is a species of the genus Mormons Tulips ( Calochortus ) in the lily family ( Liliaceae ).

Features

The Mormons Striped tulip is a fall - to spring green, perennial herbaceous plant, which reaches stature heights of 20 to 50 centimeters. This Geophyt forms onions as outlasting. At the base of the stem bulbils are found. The basal leaves are weathered at flowering time.

The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and threefold. Of the two times three 4 to 6 inches wide, the inner bracts purple and have at the bottom of a green median strip. The nectar glands are triangular - shaped arrow. The fruit capsule is upright.

The flowering time is in August, some of them already in July.

Occurrence

The Mormons Striped tulip comes from Northeastern California and Northern Nevada prior to the southern British Columbia and Montana in Artemisia scrub and yellow pine forests on volcanic soils at altitudes 300-2700 m.

Documents

• Eckhart J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller, K. (ed.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8.