Calochortus westonii
Calochortus westonii, common name Shirley Meadow star-tulip, is a rare endemic plant known only from the Greenhorn Mountains range of the southern Sierra Nevada, within Kern and Tulare Counties, California.
| Calochortus westonii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Genus: | Calochortus |
| Species: | C. westonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Calochortus westonii | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Calochortus coeruleus var. westonii (Eastw.) Ownbey | |
It grows in open locations in meadows and woodlands at elevations of 1,500–2,000 m (4,900–6,600 ft).[2]
Description
Calochortus westonii is bulb-forming herb attaining a height of up to 15 cm (5.9 in). Leaves are basal, persistent, and linear, up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long.
Sepals are green, up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. Petals are lanceolate, up to 12 mm (0.47 in) long, with long flexible hairs along the margins.[3][4][5][6]
References
- Tropicos
- Flora of North America v 26 p 125.
- Ownbey, Marion S. 1940. A monograph of the genus Calochortus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 27: 371–560.
- Ownbey, Marion 1969. Calochortus. University of Washington Publications in Botany 17: 765–779.
- Eastwood, Alice. 1931. New species of plants from western North America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 20(5):135-160.
- Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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