Erythronium grandiflorum

Common names: glacier lily, yellow glacier-lily, Avalanche Lilies

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Liliales > Liliaceae

Regional status: native

Roles: study subject, mentioned example, nectar source, mentioned, indicator species, referenced, host plant, nectar resource

ITIS TSN: 196372

Synonyms: E. grandiflorum, Ergr, erythronium_grandiflorum, Erythronium

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 108 | Mentions: 166

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 78 entities)

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Publications (118)

article

Cost of fruiting, size regulation, and senescence in a long-lived geophyte

2026PLOS OneRole: text_match

article

Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

2025Applications in Plant SciencesRole: host plant

student_paper

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: habitat component

student_paper

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

How does early snowmelt affect pollen deposition on spring wildflowers?

2024Role: mentioned

student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: study subject

Documents (7)

county plan

An Analysis of Growth and Development in the Unincorporated Portions of the East River Valley and Gunnison Urban Area

Document

Gunnison County Development

county plan

Source: Gunnison County (1997), County Subdivision Report (Draft)

land use plan

The Impacts of Large Houses: A Recommendation to Limit House Size in Gunnison County

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Co-occurring Species

student_paper

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: indicator species

student_paper

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: referenced

student_paper

Do dandelions compete with native plants for pollinator visits?

2023Role: referenced

student_paper

Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

2023Role: host plant

article

Climate change and phenology

2022WIREs Climate ChangeRole: text_match

article

Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

2022Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022Role: text_match

thesis

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: text_match

article

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

article

Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

2021InsectsRole: text_match

student_paper

Investigating the relationship between Bombus appositus abundance and its overlap with key floral resources

2021Role: text_match

article

Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology

2021Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

thesis

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: study subject

student_paper

Variation of Pollen Mass Across Species, Habitat Types, and Time

2021Role: study subject

other

A Brief Escape to Normalcy: A Summer at RMBL

2020Mountain Views ChronicleRole: indicator species

article

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: study subject

article

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: study subject

other

Field Research in the Time of the Pandemic

2020Mountain Views ChronicleRole: study subject

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020Role: study subject

other

RMBL Research in the time of Covid-19: Magical Realism?

2020Mountain Views ChronicleRole: study subject

thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: habitat component

thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

2019Role: study subject

thesis

King of the hill? How biotic interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to climate change

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: study subject

article

The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Atypical flowers can be as profitable as typical hummingbird flowers

2018The American NaturalistRole: study subject

thesis

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

2018http://hdl.handle.net/10150/628436Role: text_match

article

Confounding effects of spatial variation on shifts in phenology

2017Global Change BiologyRole: mentioned example

article

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

student_paper

Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus)

2017Role: nectar source

student_paper

Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in Selasphorus platycercus

2016Role: host plant

article

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

thesis

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

2015Role: text_match

article

The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

2015EcosystemsRole: study subject

article

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

2014EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

2014Role: study subject

student_paper

Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.

2014Role: study subject

article

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: study subject

article

The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

2014HeredityRole: text_match

article

Climate change and the conservation of marmots

2013Natural ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of experimental warming on plant traits of subalpine wildflower species of Gothic, CO

2013Role: text_match

article

Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

article

Patterns of selective caching behavior of a generalist herbivore, the American Pika (Ochotona princeps)

2013Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine ResearchRole: text_match

article

A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

2012Ecology LettersRole: text_match

article

Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early season nectar resources

2012EcologyRole: nectar source

article

Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change

2012Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: text_match

thesis

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: study subject

student_paper

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: study subject

article

Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily; Liliaceae)

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: study subject

article

Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte

2010Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.Role: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: study subject

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

article

Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species

2007New PhytologistRole: study subject

thesis

Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006Role: study subject

article

In situ photosynthetic freezing tolerance for plants exposed to a global warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

2004New PhytologistRole: study subject

article

Changes in flowering and abundance of Delphinium nuttallianum (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change BiologyRole: mentioned

article

Impact of nectar robbing on estimates of pollen flow: conceptual predictions and emperical outcomes

2003EcologyRole: text_match

article

Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

Rescue of stranded pollen grains by secondary transfer

2003Plant Species BiologyRole: study subject

article

Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to climate change: integrating experimental and gradient methods

2003Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

article

Control of litter decomposition in a subalpine meadow-sagebrush steppe ecotone under climate change

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: study subject

article

Response of nitrogen cycling to simulated climate change: differential responses along a subalpine ecotone

2001Global Change BiologyRole: herbaceous perennial vegetatio

article

Pollen presentation and pollination syndromes, with special reference to Penstemon

2000Plant Species BiologyRole: study subject - used to derive

article

Effects of Local Density on Pollination and Reproduction in Delphinium nuttallianum and Aconitum columbianum (Ranunculaceae)

1999American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Estimating species-area relationships from plot to landscape scale using species spatial-turnover data

1999OikosRole: study subject

article

Effects of experimental warming on plant reproductive phenology in a subalpine meadow

1998EcologyRole: study subject

article

Effects of pre-dispersal selection on offspring growth and survival in Erythronium grandiflorum

1997Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

article

Untangling multiple factors in spatial distributions: Lilies, gophers, and rocks

1996EcologyRole: study subject

article

Untangling multiple factors in spatial distributions: Lilies, gophers, and rocks

1996EcologyRole: text_match

article

Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological ApplicationsRole: study subject

article

P ostfertilization causes of differential success of pollen donors in E rythronium grandiflorum (L iliaceae ): nonrandom ovule abortion

1995American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Postfertilization causes of differential success of pollen donors in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae): Nonrandom ovule abortion

1995American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Seed dispersal in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1995OecologiaRole: text_match

article

P ollen viability, vigor, and competitive ability in E rythronium grandiflorum (L iliaceae )

1994American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Pollen discounting in Erythronium grandiflorum: mass-action estimates from pollen transfer dynamics

1994American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Pollen viability, vigor, and competitive ability in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1994American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantification of secondary pollen carryover in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1993Role: text_match

article

Sex allocation in hermaphroditic plants

1992Trends in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

The spatial scale of genetic differentiation in a hummingbird-pollinated plant: comparison with models of isolation by distance

1992American NaturalistRole: comparison species (preferenti

article

Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen

1991EcologyRole: text_match

article

The effect of floral abundance on feeder censuses of hummingbird populations

1991CondorRole: text_match

article

Pollen-pollen and pollen-style interactions during pollen tube growth in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1990American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Seed dispersal in four Rocky Mountain herbaceous perennials: wind dispersal in Erythronium grandiflorum and ant dispersal in Corydalis aurea, Delphinium nelsonii, Viola nuttalli

1990Role: text_match

article

Variation in pollen size, fertilization ability and postfertilization siring ability in Erythronium grandiflorum

1990EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Dispersal of Erythronium grandiflorum pollen by bumblebees: implications for gene flow and reproductive success

1989EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Evolutionary options for maximizing pollen dispersal of animal-pollinated plants

1989American NaturalistRole: study subject (donor plant)

article

Evolutionary options for maximizing pollen dispersal of animal-pollinated plants

1989American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Inflorescence size: test of the male function hypothesis

1989American Journal of BotanyRole: referenced comparison species

article

Pollen tube attrition in Erythronium grandiflorum

1989American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Pollen tube attrition in Erythronium grandiflorum

1989American Journal of BotanyRole: study subject

article

Sources of variation in plant reproductive success, and implications for concepts of sexual selection

1989American NaturalistRole: study subject (pollen receipt

article

Comparative studies of pollen and fluorescent dye transport by bumble bees visiting Erythronium grandiflorum

1986OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Pollen transport and deposition by bumble bees in Erythronium: influences of floral nectar and bee grooming

1986Journal of EcologyRole: study subject (host/recipient

article

Pollen transport and deposition by bumble bees in Erythronium: influences of floral nectar and bee grooming

1986Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Floral morphology and cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1985American Journal of BotanyRole: study subject

article

Floral morphology and cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1985American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Seed set in Erythronium grandiflorum pollen color morphs

1984Role: text_match

article

Effects of ant mounds on soil chemistry and vegetation patterns in a montane Colorado meadow

1983EcologyRole: text_match

article

Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Rocky Mountains

1983Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

Polymorphism for pollen color of Erythronium grandiflorum

1982Role: text_match

article

Skewed flowering distributions and pollinator attraction

1980EcologyRole: study subject

article

Aboveground productivity and floristic structure of a high subalpine herbaceous meadow

1979Arctic and Alpine ResearchRole: text_match

article

Behavioral and environmental factors in the spatial distribution and population dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot population

1974EcologyRole: vegetation (not known food pla

article

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1962Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

Erythronium grandiflorum

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 78 entities)

Publications (118)

Cost of fruiting, size regulation, and senescence in a long-lived geophyte

Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

How does early snowmelt affect pollen deposition on spring wildflowers?

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

Documents (7)

An Analysis of Growth and Development in the Unincorporated Portions of the East River Valley and Gunnison Urban Area

Gunnison County Development

Source: Gunnison County (1997), County Subdivision Report (Draft)

The Impacts of Large Houses: A Recommendation to Limit House Size in Gunnison County

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Co-occurring Species

Delphinium

Delphinium nuttallianum

Ipomopsis aggregata

Selasphorus platycercus

Mertensia

Bombus

Delphinium barbeyi

Potentilla

Claytonia lanceolata

Lupinus

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

Do dandelions compete with native plants for pollinator visits?

Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

Climate change and phenology

Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

Investigating the relationship between <i> Bombus appositus </i> abundance and its overlap with key floral resources

Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

Variation of Pollen Mass Across Species, Habitat Types, and Time

A Brief Escape to Normalcy: A Summer at RMBL

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Field Research in the Time of the Pandemic

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

RMBL Research in the time of Covid-19: Magical Realism?

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

King of the hill? How biotic interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to climate change

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

Atypical flowers can be as profitable as typical hummingbird flowers

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

Confounding effects of spatial variation on shifts in phenology

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in <i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

The evolution of quantitative traits in complex environments

Climate change and the conservation of marmots

Effects of experimental warming on plant traits of subalpine wildflower species of Gothic, CO

Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

Patterns of selective caching behavior of a generalist herbivore, the American Pika (<i>Ochotona princeps</i>)

A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early season nectar resources

Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change