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Erythronium elegans
Also called Elegant Fawn Lily, Coast Range Fawn Lily
Erythronium elegans is a rare species of flowering plant in the lily family known by the common names Coast Range fawnlily and elegant fawnlily. It is endemic to Oregon in the United States, where it is known from about 12 occurrences in the northern Coast Range.
This plant grows from a slender bulb 3 to 5 centimeters long. It produces two leaves up to 20 centimeters long which are green, sometimes with brownish or white mottling. The scape grows up to 30 centimeters tall and bears one to four flowers. The flower has six tepals, the inner three white and the outer three white tinged with pink. The tepals have yellow bands near the bases. They are 2 to 4 centimeters long. The protruding stamens are tipped with yellow anthers each 1 to 2 centimeters long. Blooming occurs in May and June.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythronium elegans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
