Description
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Flowering stem 15-30 cm. Tuber-like bulb elongate-ovate, above 3-6 cm long. Leaves 2, elliptical, with reddish spots, 10-20 cm x 3-7 cm. Flowers solitary, dark pink or lilac, 5-6 cm diam. Perianth lobes with numerous minute spots, inner segments with auricules. Anthers yellow, in contrast to the Europaean species E. dens-canis, which has dark lilac or brown anthers. V - April to July. Fl - end April, or beginning of May. Fr - June-July. P - by daughter bulbs and seed. Needs well-drained soil. A white-flowering form occurs in the wild. Once established, it can grow for many years in the same place and cover large patches. Good in rock gardens and flower beds. Z 3. New.
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Description
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Plants 16--20 cm tall, ca. 1/3 length underground. Bulb 3--4 cm × 6--8 mm, basally often with several bulbels. Petiole 1.5--2.5 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to suboblong, 7--10 × 1--2.5 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Flower solitary, long pedunculate. Tepals white proximally, rose purple distally, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 3 cm × 5 mm, apex obtuse; inner tepals with 4 small, crowded calli near base adaxially and 2 spreading, lanceolate auricles laterally. Filaments flattened near middle, flattened portion ovate, ca. 1.5 mm wide. Anthers suboblong, ca. 3 mm. Style slightly thickened distally; stigma 3-lobed. 2 n = 24.
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Distribution
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Siberia (Altay, Western Sayan), Central Asia (eastern Kazakstan) and Mongolia. On rocky slopes, forest edges.
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Distribution
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N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Russia].
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Habitat
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Forests, thickets, subalpine grasslands; 1100--2500 m.
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Synonym
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Erythronium dens-canis Linnaeus var. sibiricum Fischer et al., Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 7: 47. 1841.
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Erythronium sibiricum
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Erythronium sibiricum is a bulbous perennial plant in the lily family Liliaceae, commonly known as the Siberian fawn lily or Siberian trout lily.
Traits
The two basal leaves are often covered with spots. The perigones are between 25 and 70 millimeters long and of a pinkish purple, sometimes white, coloration with a yellow base. The anthers are yellow. Flowering is at the end of April or beginning of May. The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
Distribution
Erythronium sibiricum occurs in Siberia (Altay, Tuva, Krasnoyarsk), in Northeastern Kazakhstan and in Northern Xinjiang and Mongolia in the Altai and Sajan mountains. The species inhabits forests, thickets and subalpine meadows at altitudes of 1100 to 2500 meters.
Systematics
This species was first described in 1841 by Friedrich von Fischer and Carl Anton von Meyer as Erythronium dens-canis var. sibiricum. In 1929 Porphyry Nikitic Krylov gave it the species status.
References
- Jäger, Eckehardt J.; Ebel, Friedrich; Hanelt, Peter; Müller, Gerd K., eds. (2008), Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland. Band 5: Krautige Zier- und Nutzpflanzen (in German), Berlin Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8
- Chen, Xinqi; Tamura, Minoru N. "Erythronium sibiricum". Flora of China. Retrieved 26 August 2009 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- Shulkina, Tatyana. "Erythronium sibiricum". Ornamental Plants from Russia and Adjacent States of the Former Soviet Union. Retrieved 16 December 2009 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
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Erythronium sibiricum: Brief Summary
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Erythronium sibiricum is a bulbous perennial plant in the lily family Liliaceae, commonly known as the Siberian fawn lily or Siberian trout lily.
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