North Carolina Wildflowers

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Liliaceae > Erythronium (trout lily)
	Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) Durham Co., NC 10 Mar 2007 Common in moist woods statewide in NC, this is one of the native spring ephemeral wildflowers.
	Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) Durham Co., NC 10 Mar 2007 Note characteristically mottled leaves.
	Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) Durham Co., NC 2 Apr 2006 Anther color varies!
	Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) Durham Co., NC 10 Mar 2007
	Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) Durham Co., NC 10 Mar 2007

The following species are not found in North Carolina

	Glacier Lily, Yellow Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum grandiflorum) Rock Creek, Lolo National Forest, Missoula Co., MT 10 May 2010 Widespread in northern and western North America.
	Glacier Lily, Yellow Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum grandiflorum) MPG Ranch, Ravalli Co., MT 8 May 2012
	Glacier Lily, Yellow Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum grandiflorum) Rock Creek, Lolo National Forest, Missoula Co., MT 10 May 2010 Many parts of this plant are edible and are/were eaten both by Native American tribes as well as other mammals including Grizzly Bears

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.