Calflora: Fritillaria affinis var. affinis

Fritillaria affinis (Schultes) Sealy var. affinis

checker lily

Fritillaria affinis var. affinis, a monocot, is a perennial herb (bulb) that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Affinity to serpentine soil: 2 (weak indicator) [Safford et al 2005]
Elevation:	between 0 and 5905 feet
Family:	LILIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Fritillaria found in California.
	See the more inclusive parent record Fritillaria affinis.

Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93
TJM2: accepted name:		Fritillaria affinis

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Fritillaria camschatcensis var. floribunda
PLANTS:	Fritillaria eximia
PLANTS:	Fritillaria lanceolata
PLANTS:	Fritillaria mutica var. gracilis
PLANTS:	Fritillaria mutica

NOTE: Fritillaria affinis var. affinis is not an active name in the Calflora species table.

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 13 / 2 CCH Butte: 7 / 6 CCH Contra Costa: 9 / 1 CCH Colusa: 4 / 4 CCH Del Norte: 17 / 16 CCH Humboldt: 26 / 25 CCH Lake: 10 / 10 CCH Mendocino: 8 / 3 CCH Monterey: 9 / 6 CCH Mariposa: 1 / 0 CCH Marin: 35 / 1 CCH Napa: 14 / 4 CCH Nevada: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 3 / 0 CCH San Benito: 3 / 1 CCH Santa Clara: 4 / 1 CCH Santa Cruz: 5 / 0 CCH San Francisco: 3 / 0 CCH Shasta: 7 / 4 CCH Siskiyou: 1 / 1 CCH San Luis Obispo: 2 / 1 CCH San Mateo: 9 / 2 CCH Solano: 4 / 1 CCH Sonoma: 4 / 0 CCH Stanislaus: 1 / 1 CCH Sutter: 1 / 0 CCH Tehama: 3 / 3 CCH Trinity: 9 / 8 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Fritillaria affinis var. affinis from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (FRAFA2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database