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Erythronium purpurascens
Also called Purple Fawn Lily, Sierra Nevada Fawn Lily
A bulbous spring wildflower of California's mountains, with white flowers that age to purple, and it is grown in cool, moist woodland gardens. It needs a cool, moist spot and summer dormancy when the bulb is kept dry.
Erythronium purpurascens is a species of flowering plant in the lily family which is known by the common names purple fawn lily and Sierra Nevada fawn lily.
It is endemic to California, where it grows in the high mountains of the southern Cascade Range, Coast Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada from Siskiyou County south to Mendocino and Placer Counties.
White fawnlily · Dogtooth violet · California fawnlily · Caucasian Dog's Tooth Violet · Cream fawnlily · Dog's-tooth-violet · Coast Range fawnlily · Yellow avalanche-lily · Pacific fawnlily · Henderson's fawnlily · Howell's fawnlily · Erythronium idahoense
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erythronium purpurascens 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.
