Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. (yellow trout-lily), growth habit
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2005 – 2012
Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. (yellow trout-lily), woodland wildflower, image shows habit, extensively colonial perennials with almost no above ground stem, arising from a deep solid corm, juveniles have 1 leaf and matures have 2, leaves are mostly oblong tapering to the base fleshy shining usually mottled with brown 8" long by 3" wide, flowers are solitary on a scape 4-8" tall nodding always on mature plants, tepals are strongly recurved or spreading on bright days,
Yellow Trout Lily has tepals that are 0.6-2.0" long yellow but may be reddish at the base within and darker colored outside, inner tepals have a small rounded auricle (ear) about 0.1-0.2" above the base, anthers are yellow or red
Yellow Trout Lily has tepals that are 0.6-2.0" long yellow but may be reddish at the base within and darker colored outside, inner tepals have a small rounded auricle (ear) about 0.1-0.2" above the base, anthers are yellow or red
