Clintonia borealis
Clintonia borealis
Clintonia borealis is a species of the lily family ( Liliaceae ). It is distributed in northeastern North America, and there is " Blue bead lily", "Yellow Clintonia " or " Corn - lily".
Description
Clintonia borealis is reaches a height of 20 to 50 centimeters a clump forming of thin rhizomes, herbaceous plant. The two-to four -stalked leaves are oblong - round to elliptic obovate, 15 to 30 inches long and 5 to 10 inches wide with glossy dark green leaf blade.
Bloom time is from early May to early July. The razemösen inflorescences are short, terminal and carry three to eight, rarely up to ten flowers. The one and rarely three bracts are narrow leaf-like. The nodding flowers have yellow to yellowish- green, narrowly oblong- round bloom, which are 12 to 16 millimeters long and 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are 12 to 17.5 mm long, oblong- round anthers are 2 to 3.5 millimeters long.
The fruits are ovoid, ultramarine blue, 8 to 12 millimeters long berries. They contain 8 to 16 seeds that are 3 to 5 mm long. Known chromosome numbers amount to 28 or 32
Dissemination
The species is found in northeastern North America (Canada, USA ) from the east coast to Minnesota to the west, from Newfoundland in the north to Pennsylvania to the south, and additionally of Southern Pennsylvania in a narrow corridor along the border between West Virginia and Virginia and Tennessee and North Carolina. They settled dense coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests at altitudes 0-1600 meters.
Systematics and botanical history
Was first described in 1789 by William Aiton the type as Dracaena borealis, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1832 then set it to go back to 1818 first described by him genus Clintonia. The genus name honors DeWitt Clinton, several times Governor of New York, the Art epithet refers to the northern distribution.