Erythronium propullans

Erythronium propullans

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

Features

The bulbs are 10 to 25 millimeters in size and ovate. The leaves are 4 to 13 inches long. The leaf blade is green, irregularly marbled, frosted, more or less flat, entire and elliptic- lanceolate to ovate - lanceolate or elliptic. The shaft is 3.9 to 12 inches long. The inflorescence is flowered.

The four to six petals are 8 to 15 millimeters in size, lanceolate and strongly bent back in the heyday. They are pale colored pink to white, flowers farther away from the axis they are darker. Auricles are absent. The two to six stamens are 6-8 millimeters in size. The stamens are lanceolate and white. The anthers are yellow. The pollen is yellow. The pens are 6 to 10 millimeters in size and white. The scar is more or less ungelappt. Fruit capsules are rarely formed. Are capsules present, they usually go to a hybridization with Erythronium albidum back.

The species has often less than six petals and stamens, it can sometimes occur even two carpels.

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

Occurrence

Erythronium propullans in Minnesota is endemic in the Counties Goodhue and Rice. The species grows in moderately nutrient-rich floodplain forests at altitudes of 300 meters. Erythronium propullans comes along with Erythronium albidum before, there are also reports of putative hybrids between the two species.

Documents

• Erythronium propullans in the Flora of North America (accessed 31 October 2010 )