Difference between revisions of "Camassia scilloides"
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Latest revision as of 21:16, 5 November 2020
Bulbs sometimes clustered, ovoid, 1–3 cm diam. Leaves 3–8, 2–6 dm × 5–20 mm. Inflorescences 19–47 cm; sterile bracts 0–3(–5), bracts subtending flowers shorter than or equaling pedicel. Flowers actinomorphic; tepals usually withering separately after anthesis, not deciduous, light blue, occasionally whitish, each 3- or 5-veined, 7–15 × 2.6–4.2 mm; anthers bright yellow, 1.3–3.2 mm; fruiting pedicel mostly spreading to spreading-erect, 5–30 mm. Capsules deciduous, pale green to light brown, subglobose, 6–10 mm. Seeds 2–5 per locule. 2n = 30.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat: Prairies
Elevation: 100–1000 m
Distribution
Ont., Ala., Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mich., Miss., Mo., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va., Wis.
Discussion
Camassia scilloides flowers two to three weeks earlier than sympatric populations of C. angusta.
The name Schoenolirion texanum was long misapplied to a taxon now correctly known as S. wrightii Sherman.
Selected References
None.