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Henderson's Fawnlily
Erythronium hendersonii
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Henderson's Fawnlily (Erythronium hendersonii) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Erythronium hendersonii, Henderson's Fawn Lily, is a member of the Lily family that is endemic to southwest Oregon, and barely reaching into Northern California. It can be locally very abundant within its range which is basically restricted to the Rogue River, and Applegate River drainages in Josephine County and Jackson County in Oregon, and barely into northern Siskiyou County in California. It blooms early in the southern part of its range starting in February, with some locations carpeted by E. hendersonii in the thousands in March, where it often blooms with Dodecatheon hendersonii. It blooms at higher elevations through May. It is most abundant in dry, open woodlands of Ponderosa Pine, Garry Oak, and Madrone. E. hendersonii has a pair of mottled leaves, and its scape can bear up to eleven blossoms, but more commonly 1-4. The flower color is distinctive among all western North American Erythroniums. The color of the recurved petals varies from a deep velvety purple, to lavender. The base of the petals is dark purple, and surrounded by a tinge of white or yellow. The stigma is unlobed to shortly three-lobed, and the anthers are purple to brown.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Flower Color
Flower Color
Purple, Lavender

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Part Shade

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Propagation
Propagation?
For propagating by seed: 2 wks. warm, then 3 mos. cold stratification.

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Dry open places

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 21.1" - 84.3", Summer Precipitation: 0.72" - 2.33", Coldest Month: 37.8" - 48.4", Hottest Month: 60.7" - 67.8", Humidity: 0.42" - 19.42", Elevation: 73" - 4747"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Henderson's Fawn Lily


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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