Erythronium elegans

Erythronium elegans is a species of the genus of the tooth lilies ( Erythronium ).

Features

The bulbs are 30 to 50 millimeters tall and slim. The leaves are 7-20 inches long. The leaf blade is almost egg-shaped and mottled green or pale brown and white. The leaf margin is often wavy. The shaft is 10 to 30 inches long. The inflorescence is usually one to two flowered, rarely up vierblütig.

The petals are 20-40 mm long and wide, lanceolate to almost elliptical. The inner petals are more or less white. The outer ones are also more or less white and additionally often strongly colored pink, in particular along the center line and on the side facing away from stems; with the time they turn out to altogether pale pink. Both the inner and the outer petals have a yellow band, at its base on. The interior is slightly auriculate at the base. The stamens are 13 to 22 millimeters long. The stamens are 0.8 to 2 mm wide, white, flattened, slightly broadened and linear to lanceolate. The anthers are yellow. The pens are 10 to 20 millimeters long and white. The scar has narrow, recurved 2 to 4 millimeters long and usually cloth. The capsules are 2-5 inches long and obovate to oblong.

The flowering time is in the late spring from May to June.

The chromosome number is 2n = 48

Occurrence

Erythronium elegans is endemic to the coastal areas in western Oregon. The species grows on meadows and in open coniferous forests at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters.

Documents

• Erythronium elegans in the Flora of North America (accessed 3 November 2010 )