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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Zdenek on January 08, 2012, 01:09:27 PM

Title: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: Zdenek on January 08, 2012, 01:09:27 PM

I enclose here a picture which I made in California in June 1997 on a slide (!). I intend to place now some pictures from that trip to my web page and transfered them to digital form. This is some Fritillaria but I am not able to recognize the species. The picture was not too good on a slide and now it is even worse. Anyhow, could somebody help me with its identification?

Title: Re: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: Maggi Young on January 08, 2012, 01:24:39 PM

Are you sure that is not an Epipactis?

Title: Re: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: Surreylad on January 08, 2012, 04:49:07 PM

looking at the leaf i agree with maggi it does look like an epipactis.. but it could be something like Fritillaria sewerzowii or similar, pity it's not a bit clearer...

Title: Re: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: Maggi Young on January 08, 2012, 05:31:39 PM

There is clearly a large ovary behind the flower. Flower colour is right for Epipactis. Foliage is right.

Not too many chances to photograph Fritillaria sewerzowii in the wild in the US of A  ;)

Title: Re: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: daveyp1970 on January 08, 2012, 05:46:06 PM

Maggie you are 100% it is epipactis.

Title: Re: What American Fritillaria ?
Post by: Zdenek on March 09, 2012, 06:41:01 PM

Thank You Maggi and all. It didn't occur to me that it could be an Orchidaceae.
I am sorry that I wasn't able to reply sooner.