Streptopus amplexifolius

  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Common Name: claspleaf twistedstalk
  • Symbol: STAM2
  • Description: Plants from thick rhizomes. Stems freely branched, stout, 5-12 dm, often with reddish hairs basally, nodes not fringed. Leaves 5-15 2.5-6 cm; blade ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, base cordate-clasping, apex acuminate; peduncle: junction with pedicel abrupt, with glands indicating transition, entire structure 2-5 cm, glands short-stalked. Flowers 1-2 per axil; perianth campanulate; tepals spreading, recurved at tips, white to greenish yellow, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9-15 mm; stamens unequal, outer shorter, 0.8-1 mm, inner 2-3 mm; anthers lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm, apex 1-pointed; style stout, 4-5 mm; stigma fused from base to tip, unlobed; combined peduncles and pedicels recurved, 2-5 cm, short-stalked glands indicating transition; pedicel sharply geniculate, glabrous. Berries whitish green maturing to yellowish orange or red, ellipsoid, 10-12 mm. Seeds 2.5-3 mm. 2n = 16, 32. Flowering late spring--mid summer. Rich moist coniferous and deciduous woods; 0--2800 m https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/imagelib/imgdetails.php?imgid=290758

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