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Dimpled troutlily

Erythronium umbilicatum

Also called Dimpled Trout Lily

Dimpled troutlily
Photo: Dcrjsr, CC BY 3.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
West Virginia to SE. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Erythronium umbilicatum, the dimpled trout lily, is a species of flowering plant in the lily family. It is native to the Southeastern United States, primarily in the Piedmont and Southern Appalachian areas. It is reported from West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Erythronium umbilicatum is a spring ephemeral and its preferred habitat is forests. It has egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 cm long. Leaves are up to 20 cm long, mottled. Scape is up to 20 cm long, bearing one yellow flower, sometimes with brown spots on the tepals.

Other Erythronium plants

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 umbilicatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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