Prosartes, the fairybells,[3] is a North American genus of flowering plants in the lily family.[4]
For several decades plants of this genus were considered part of the otherwise Asian genus Disporum. Studies of morphology and cytology, as well as genetic analysis, show these North American plants to be different from the Asian species, and in 1995 the two groups began to be recognized as distinct genera.[5][4]Prosartes included five species until 2010, when a sixth, Prosartes parvifolia, long considered a variant of Prosartes hookeri, or perhaps a hybrid, was acknowledged as a distinct species.[6]
These plants are rhizomatous herbs with bell-like pendent (hanging) flowers.[4]
Species[1][7]
Prosartes hookeri - drops of gold - California and Pacific Northwest, plus isolated populations in Black Hills and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Prosartes parvifolia - Siskiyou bells - southwestern Oregon, northwestern California
Prosartes smithii - largeflower fairybells - West Coast from Vancouver Island to San Francisco Bay
Prosartes trachycarpa - roughfruit fairybells - western United States, central + western Canada
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Tropicos, Prosartes D. Don
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Prosartes". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
^ abcFlora of North America: Prosartes
^Shinwari, Z.K.; Terauchi, R.; Utech, F.H. & Kawano, S. (1994), "Recognition of the New World Disporum Section Prosartes as Prosartes (Liliaceae) Based on the Sequence Data of the rbcL Gene", Taxon, 43 (3): 353–366, doi:10.2307/1222713
^Mesler, M., et al. (2010). A resurrection for Siskiyou Bells, Prosartes parvifolia (Liliaceae), a rare Siskiyou Mountains endemic. Madroño 57:2 129-35.
^Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution maps
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