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Yellow Trout Lily

Erythronium americanum

Photo by antondazomb
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Description:

A single, nodding yellow flower, 1½ inches wide by 1 inch long, at the end of a stiff naked stem to 8 inches long. Flowers sometimes tinged with purple on outside of petals or reddish dots in throat. There are 6 long stamens in the center, usually with deep rusty red tips (anthers), or sometimes yellow. Petals flare out and back, often completely curved back to stem at maturity.

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PublishedMay 27, 2013

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