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Veratrum

Common names: corn lily

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Liliales > Melanthiaceae

Roles: habitat vegetation, habitat plant, habitat, meadow plant, habitat component, host plant

ITIS TSN: 42756

Synonyms: corn lily

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 94 | Mentions: 114

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 79 entities)

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Publications (94)

article

Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

2026PNASRole: text_match

article

Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Quantifying the effect of petrogenic carbon on SOC turnover for two Rocky Mountain soils: when are petrogenic carbon corrections required?

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match

article

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of drought on wildflower size and seed set

2025Role: text_match

article

Variations in bedrock and vegetation cover modulate subsurface water flow dynamics of a mountainous hillslope

2024Water Resources ResearchRole: text_match

article

Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

2023Frontiers in Earth ScienceRole: text_match

Documents (6)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

technical report

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Document

Moist Forests

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

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

article

Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem

2023MicrobiomeRole: text_match

student_paper

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

2022Role: text_match

article

Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

How understory bee communities compare to open meadows in the Rocky Mountains

2022Role: meadow plant

article

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

2021Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of nestling begging behavior on parental food provisioning in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow

2021Role: habitat plant

article

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

2021Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

thesis

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2020Role: text_match

article

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

2020Remote SensingRole: text_match

article

Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

2020Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match

article

The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter

2020Frontiers in Microbiology. doi 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00871Role: text_match

student_paper

Tracing phenology trends in time and space using herbarium data and citizen science observations in western Colorado

2020Role: text_match

thesis

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Effect of blood parasites on incubation efficiency of Z. l. oriantha in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2019Role: habitat plant

article

Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match

article

The depredation of Mountain White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophyrys oriantha) nests by the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) and long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)

2019The Wilson J. of OrnithologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Trap behavior of Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha at different elevations in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Can Variation of Insect Populations Affect Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Daily Nest Survival?

2018Role: habitat

student_paper

Effect of blood parasites on secondary sexual characteristics and morphology in mountain white-crowned sparrows

2018Role: habitat plant

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

The effect of surrounding bloom color on pan trap success in sampling Rocky Mountain bees

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

White-Crowned Sparrow respond to the alarm calls of local species but do not discriminate among them

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Assessing the Role of Oxbow Deposits in Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics within Alpine Watersheds

2017Role: habitat vegetation

student_paper

Does it stay or does it go: exploring seasonal influences on nutrients across topography in a Colorado mountain watershed

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Didymosphenia germinata on American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) Territory Size

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Climate Changes on Ecologically Important Bees and Flowers

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Life History Traits in the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow During Incubation

2017Role: habitat component

student_paper

Factors that affect territory size in Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)

2017Role: text_match

article

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

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

article

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Correlation of leaf and community traits and various spectra in meadows along an elevation gradient

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Elevation on Trap Behavior in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Temperature and Nestling Development: Temporal Variations in Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha Feeding Frequency

2016Role: host plant

student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Nest-Site Selection and Microclimate on Nest Survival in Sparrows of High Elevation

2016Role: habitat plant

student_paper

The Role of Alpine Wetlands as Hot Spots of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the East River, Colorado

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Causes and consequences of dominant and subdominant plant species effects on ecosystem function: using above-and belowground traits in an alpine meadow system

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Habitat Selection in Nicrophoryus investigator and defodiens.

2015Role: text_match

article

The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

2015Methods in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

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

2015EcosystemsRole: text_match

student_paper

Behavioral response of mountain white-crowned sparrows towards an interspecific competitor.

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Competitive hierarchy or niche packing? An examination of the effects of competition on community.

2014Role: text_match

article

Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

2014NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match

article

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community

2014EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Influence of elevation on the sexual dimorphic gap in mountain white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha).

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

article

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

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Behavioral response of Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows towards an interspecific competitor

2013Role: habitat plant

article

Effects of climate change on mast-flowering cues in a clonal montane herb, Veratrum tenuipetalum (Melanthiaceae)

2013American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Patterns of ectoparasite prevalence in the mountain white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha

2013Role: habitat

chapter

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Assessing the impacts of long-term pan trapping on native bee populations in sub-alpine ecosystems

2012Role: text_match

thesis

The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

The value of dihydrogen monoxide to a jumping mouse: habitat use and preference in Zapus princeps.

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Spatial distribution of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Vegetation pattern dependency along the southwest-facing hillslope of the upper East River Watershed

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

2010Role: text_match

article

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

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Possible influence of altitude, geographical distance between sites and annual precipitation rates on species richness

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Variation in the structure and dynamics of bee assemblages across distinct montane meadows

2009Role: text_match

article

Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers

2008EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of water addition on below- and above-ground carbon processes across a montane elevational gradient

2008Role: text_match

article

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

2007New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Antipredatory response of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) to predator urines

2005Role: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

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

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

student_paper

Report on the conservation status of Veratrum californicum in the Gothic area

1995Role: text_match

article

Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: results from a climate-warming experiment

1995ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

Rhizome patterning in the cow lily, Veratrum californicum L. (Durand)

1988Role: text_match

article

Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Rocky Mountains

1983Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of the Veratrum californicum communities on the eastern slope of Gothic Mountain

1971Role: text_match

student_paper

A study of false hellbore (Veratrum californicum)

1970Role: text_match

student_paper

The growth rate of Veratrum californica

1970Role: text_match

article

Growth substances from Veratrum tenuipetalum

1968Plant PhysiologyRole: text_match

article

Mountain mosquitoes of the Gothic, Colorado area

1966American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

Habitat and structure of Veratrum speciosum

1954Role: text_match

Veratrum

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 79 entities)

Publications (94)

Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Quantifying the effect of petrogenic carbon on SOC turnover for two Rocky Mountain soils: when are petrogenic carbon corrections required?

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

The effects of drought on wildflower size and seed set

Variations in bedrock and vegetation cover modulate subsurface water flow dynamics of a mountainous hillslope

Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

Documents (6)

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Moist Forests

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

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Veratrum californicum

Veratrum californicum var. californicum

Potentilla gracilis

Potentilla

Potentilla pulcherrima

Potentilla hippiana

Salix lucida subsp. lasiandra

Barbey's Larkspur

Nuttall's Larkspur

Larkspurs

Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

How understory bee communities compare to open meadows in the Rocky Mountains

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient

Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

Effects of nestling begging behavior on parental food provisioning in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter

Tracing phenology trends in time and space using herbarium data and citizen science observations in western Colorado

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

Effect of blood parasites on incubation efficiency of <i>Z. l. oriantha</i> in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Investigating Microtopographic and Soil Controls on a Mountainous Meadow Plant Community Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing and Surface Geophysical Data

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

The depredation of Mountain White-crowned Sparrow (<i>Zonotrichia leucophyrys oriantha</i>) nests by the golden-mantled ground squirrel (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>) and long-tailed weasel (<i>Mustela frenata</i>)

Trap behavior of <i> Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha </i> at different elevations in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado

Can Variation of Insect Populations Affect Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Daily Nest Survival?

Effect of blood parasites on secondary sexual characteristics and morphology in mountain white-crowned sparrows

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

The effect of surrounding bloom color on pan trap success in sampling Rocky Mountain bees

White-Crowned Sparrow respond to the alarm calls of local species but do not discriminate among them

Assessing the Role of Oxbow Deposits in Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics within Alpine Watersheds

Does it stay or does it go: exploring seasonal influences on nutrients across topography in a Colorado mountain watershed

Effects of <i>Didymosphenia germinata</i> on American Dipper (<i>Cinclus mexicanus</i>) Territory Size

Effects of Climate Changes on Ecologically Important Bees and Flowers

Effects of Life History Traits in the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow During Incubation

Factors that affect territory size in Mountain White-Crowned Sparrows (<i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i>)

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

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

Correlation of leaf and community traits and various spectra in meadows along an elevation gradient

Effects of Elevation on Trap Behavior in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (<i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i>)

Temperature and Nestling Development: Temporal Variations in <i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i> Feeding Frequency

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

The Effects of Nest-Site Selection and Microclimate on Nest Survival in Sparrows of High Elevation

The Role of Alpine Wetlands as Hot Spots of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the East River, Colorado

Causes and consequences of dominant and subdominant plant species effects on ecosystem function: using above-and belowground traits in an alpine meadow system

Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

Habitat Selection in Nicrophoryus investigator and defodiens.

The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

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

Behavioral response of mountain white-crowned sparrows towards an interspecific competitor.

Competitive hierarchy or niche packing? An examination of the effects of competition on community.

Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community

Influence of elevation on the sexual dimorphic gap in mountain white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha).

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community