. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. owers terminal (1) Flowers on a leafy stem (a) Flowers white or whitish to lilac x. Flowers in a raceme or panicle Wagnera y. Flowers solitary or 2-3 in an umbel (x) Flowers nodding; leaves ovate to Disporum lance-oblong(y) Flowers erect; leaves linear, grass-likem. Flowers 1-3 in. wide; petals fringed at base Calochortus n. Flowers 1-2 cm. wide; petals not fringed Lloydia (b) Flowers yellow to orange or purple x. Flowers erect, orange, 2-3 in. wide Lilium y. Flowers nodding, purple or yellow and purple-dotted, 1
. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. owers terminal (1) Flowers on a leafy stem (a) Flowers white or whitish to lilac x. Flowers in a raceme or panicle Wagnera y. Flowers solitary or 2-3 in an umbel (x) Flowers nodding; leaves ovate to Disporum lance-oblong(y) Flowers erect; leaves linear, grass-likem. Flowers 1-3 in. wide; petals fringed at base Calochortus n. Flowers 1-2 cm. wide; petals not fringed Lloydia (b) Flowers yellow to orange or purple x. Flowers erect, orange, 2-3 in. wide Lilium y. Flowers nodding, purple or yellow and purple-dotted, 1 in. wide or less Fritillaria (2) Plants stemless (a) Leaves stiff, spiny-pointed, 1-3 ft. long; flowers white in a long raceme Yucca (b) Leaves not stiff and spiny-pointed x. Flowers yellow, nodding Erythronium k>* Plate 42 LILY FAMILY 1. Allium cernuum: Onion 3. Erythronium parviflorum: Spring Lily, Dogtooth Violet 4. Lilium philadelphicum: Lily 5. Zygadenus elegans 6. Calochortus Gunnisonii: Mariposa Lily SPIDERWORT FAMILY 2. Tradescantia virginiana: Spiderwort PLATE EDITH S. CLEMENTS. PINXT ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLOWERS /~<-\/~ LC A V M CT D^CTHM LILY FAMILY 307 v. Flowers white to pink or blue (x) Flowers in a raceme, blue or white Quamassia(y) Flowers in an umbelm. Flowers blue Brodiaea n. Flowers white to pink (m) Flowers with a tube 1-2 , few from an under-ground root-stalk Leucocrinum(n) Flowers without a tube, many on a long stalk Allium Allium Linne 1753 Oniox (Lat. name of the garlic) PI. 42, fig. 1. Sepals and petals 3 each, similar, stamens 6, ovary 3-celled, stigmas small, ovules 1-6 in each cell; flowers white to rose, in a simple terminal umbel, with 2-3 papery bracts; leaves basal, narrowly linear, sheathing; bulbous perennial. 1. Leaves hollow, terete; flowers rose-color, longer than their pedicels; parts of the perianth 8-12 mm. long 2. Leaves not hollow a. Flowers mostly replaced by little bulbs A. canadense b. Flowers rarely replaced
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