Fritillaria camschatcensis

Fritillaria camschatcensis is a species of flowering plant native to northeastern Asia and northwestern North America, including northern Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, northern Japan, and the Russian Far East (Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands).[2] It has many common names, including Kamchatka fritillary and Kamchatka lily.

Fritillaria camschatcensis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Subfamily: Lilioideae
Tribe: Lilieae
Genus: Fritillaria
Species:
F. camschatcensis
Binomial name
Fritillaria camschatcensis
Synonyms[1]
  • Amblirion camschatcense (L.) Sweet
  • Fritillaria camschatcensis f. flavescens (Makino) T.Shimizu
  • Fritillaria camschatcensis var. flavescens Makino
  • Fritillaria saranna Stejneger
  • Lilium camschatcense L.
  • Lilium nigrum Siebold
  • Lilium quadrifoliatum E.Mey. ex C.Presl
  • Sarana edulis Fisch. ex Baker
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It is also called rice lily, northern rice-root, or (misleadingly) Indian rice or wild rice, because of the rice-like bulblets that form around its roots.

Description

Fritillaria camschatcensis produces bulbs with several large fleshy scales, similar to those of commercially cultivated garlic. Leaves are lanceolate, up to 10 cm long, borne in whorls along the stem. Stem is up to 60 cm tall, with flowers at the top. Flowers are spreading or nodding (hanging downwards), dark brown, sometimes mottled with yellow.[3][4][5][6]

See also

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Flora of North America v 26 p 168, Fritillaria camschatcensis
  4. Ker Gawler, John Bellenden. 1809. Botanical Magazine 30: sub pl. 1216, Fritillaria camschatcensis
  5. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 303, as Lilium camschatcense
  6. Shimizu, Tatemi. 1983. New Alpine Flora of Japan in Color 2: 358, as Fritillaria camtschatcensis forma flavescens


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