Yellow Trout Lily
Scientific Name:Erythronium americanum


NOTES: Spring ephemeral, not flowering for the first four to seven years of its life. Anther color usually brick red, less often yellow. Seeds have fatty appendages (elaiosomes) which attract ants that disperse seeds. Spread slowly to form colonies, some 200-300 years old. Lily family (bulbous herbs with a superior ovary).

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Yellow Trout Lily
Genus species: Erythronium americanum
Common Name: Yellow Trout Lily
Family Name: Liliaceae  
Perennial herbs from bulbs; leaves various, simple and parallel-veined, with sheathing bases; flowers bisexual, regular, solitary or in various terminal clusters; superior ovary; fruit a berry or capsule; often toxic if eaten.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom:  
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