Flora of East-Central Indiana

White Trout Lily
Scientific Name Erythronium albidum  Nutt.
Family Name Liliaceae (Lily Family)

 

Characteristics
Habitat: moist woods
Plant Height: 10-20 cm, erect stem
Flower Color: white, often tinged with lavender on outside
Flower: complete; perfect; 3 white sepals; 3 white petals; sepals and petals reflexed; 6 stamens, adnate to base of petals and sepals, anthers yellow; stigma white, 3 styles; ovary superior; 2.5 cm wide
Inflorescence: single nodding flower
Fruit: many-seeded capsule
Leaves: 2 basal leaves; entire; linear-elliptic to oblanceolate; mottled with red/brown; non-flowering plants have a single leaf
Bloom Time: April-May
Origins: native
Other: grows in colonies; nearly identical to E. americanum  except for flower color

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general plant habit leaves close up of flower form

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