Erythronium montanum

Erythronium montanum

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

Features

The bulbs are 25 to 60 millimeters in size and almost ovoid. The leaves are 10-20 cm long. The leaf blade is green and ovate to broadly lanceolate. The leaf base narrows more or less suddenly in the petiole. The leaf margin is wavy. The shaft is 12 to 35 inches long. The inflorescence is one to dreiblütig.

The petals are 25 to 45 millimeters in size, broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate and white to off -white in color with a bright yellow area at the base. The inner petals are wider than the outer auriculate to the base and less than four times as long as wide. The stamens are 12 to 24 millimeters in size. The stamens are linear, slender, white, and less than 0.8 millimeters wide. The anthers are bright yellow. The stylus 13 to 25 millimeters long and white. The scar has 1 to 5 millimeters tall, slender and usually reflexed lobes on. The capsules are 3 to 6 inches long and oblong.

The chromosome number is 2n = 24

The flowering time is in the summer, generally shortly after snow melt from June to August.

Occurrence

Erythronium montanum comes in the coastal region of southern British Columbia before and disjoint them on the southern Vancouver Iceland, on the Olympic Peninsula and in the Cascade Mountains from Mount Rainier National Park in Washington until the middle of Oregon. The species grows on meadows and in open coniferous forests in the montane and subalpine zones at altitudes from 800 to 2000 (rarely above 300 ) meters

Documents

• Erythronium montanum in the Flora of North America (accessed 18 October 2009 )