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Clintonia borealis
Also called Bluebead-lily, Yellow Clintonia, Corn Lily, Blue Bead Lily, Clinton's Lily, Snake Berries, Clinton Lily
Bluebead is a small woodland perennial in the lily family, native to cool boreal and northern forests of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. It grows best in shade or dappled light with cool, moist, humus-rich soil, and it spreads slowly by rhizomes.
Clintonia borealis is a species of flowering plant in the lily family. The specific epithet borealis means "of the north," which alludes to the fact that the species tends to thrive in the boreal forests of eastern Canada and northeastern United States. It is commonly known as bluebead, blue bead-lily, or yellow clintonia.
Clintonia borealis is a wide-ranging species in eastern North America, from Newfoundland and Labrador across New England into the Great Lakes region west to Manitoba and Minnesota. Its range extends southward into the Appalachian Mountains where it is allopatric with C. umbellulata, that is, the ranges of the two species do not significantly overlap but are immediately adjacent to one another. In the Appalachians, C. umbellulata prefers hardwood forests less than 1,000 m (3,281 ft) while C. borealis populates coniferous or mixed forests up to 1,600 m (5,249 ft).
Andrew's clintonia · Bead Lily · White clintonia · Bride's bonnet · Bluebead
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clintonia borealis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
