Trout lily

We’ve assembled a nice collection of US native trout lilies, but unfortunately they don’t adapt well to typical nursery production. We are experimenting with digging these spring ephemerals while they are in flower and shipping them at that time. Here is one that was a start this spring that hopefully we’ll be able to share

The first of the Trout Lilies has bloomed! Each spring, the forest floor is covered with them. Its leaves resemble a trout in a stream, and its blooms are dainty yellow nodding flowers. This wildflower is an ephemeral, which means after it blooms in early spring, it goes dormant until next spring. They are edible and, I hear, delicious for spring salads. They’re also used for many medicinal purposes. When the Victorians thought of them (they had a symbol for every flower), they thought o...

Yellow trout lily

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) is a spring ephemeral that grows in rich floodplains. They rise from a deep bulb and can take up to seven years before a plant produces a flower. During this time the bulb is storing energy absorbed by its pair of leaves on the surface. The bulb also has a tendency to send out offshoots, enabling the plant to further colonize an area. The flowers are very phototropic, following the sun throughout the day before closing in the evening. Ants are major…

another native woodland ephemeral.

White Trout Lily (Erythronium albidum)

Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx is the largest park in New York City. It was a favorite dumping ground for dead bodies in the late 1980s and 1990s. And it is

erythronium americanum

Wildflower (Liliaceae family) / March, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2015 by William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved. Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) Rural Habersham Co., GA (Homewoods)

A simple salad made of edible spring ephemerals. Here toothwort, Floerkia sprouts, spring beauty and trout lily are used. Serves 4-6 as a small side dish

Trout Lily - Erythronium americanum - circa 1926

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The yellow (Erythronium americanum) and white (E. albidum) trout lilies are synonymous with early spring ephemeral woodland wildflowers. These small (4 - 6" tall) members of the lily family can put on quite a show when a cluster of them in the garden is in full flower. These lilies take seven years to mature and when mature have two mottled basal leaves. The flowers have six tepals (three sepals and three petals) and open during the day (to the extent that they are recurved when fully open)…

The classic spring trout lily makes a fascinating perennial wildflower, whether here at the NYBG or planted in the home garden.

yellow trout lily from Thetford, VT on May 9, 2021 at 12:33 PM by Tom Norton

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A macro photograph of Dimpled Trout Lily in Swift Creek Bluffs, Wake County, North Carolina.