Erythronium multiscapideum

Sierra fawn lily

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sierra fawn lily is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and northern Sierra Nevada in open woodland and shrubby slopes at elevations of 50 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white flowers with yellow bases, 16 to 35 millimeters long, in clusters of 1 to 4 blooms. Growing with slender stems 20 to 30 centimeters tall, it emerges from a small ovoid bulb that produces bulblets along long, slender rhizomes. Its leaves are 4 to 15 centimeters long, elliptical, and distinctively mottled with brown or white patterns. The plant features delicate white stamens and a white style with small recurved stigma lobes.

Habitat: Open woodland, shrubby slopes

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 50-1200 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, n&ampc SNF, n SNH.

California counties: Butte, Placer, Mariposa, El Dorado, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Yuba, Tehama, Mendocino, Amador, Alameda, Del Norte, Lassen

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.