trout lily, fawn lily, dog-tooth violet (Erythronium spp.) |
UWSP Common Plants of Wisconsin |
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trout lily, fawn lily, dog-tooth violet (Erythronium spp.; LILY FAMILY [Liliaceae]) Small perennial herbs with solitary, nodding flowers, ¾-1½" long, yellow in one Wisconsin species and white in the other. Leaves 3-8" long, relatively narrow, usually two, entire, and appearing basal, because about half of stem is underground, arising from a deep corm. Leaves in the yellow flowered species are distinctly mottled. Found in moist woods. Flowers in early spring and dies back to the corm by early summer. [136]
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