Erythronium Species, Adder's-Tongue, Dogtooth Violet, Trout Lily, Yellow Trout-Lily

I have had this plant for two years and no blooms yet, just a single leaf from each corm. This year I noticed little white stolons coming...Read More out of the ground near them. The stolons look kind of like a long bean sprout stem. So, they are multiplying and I'm hoping for some blooms next year.

To Marie , if you want to dig a trout lily, you will have to dig deep. i have tried transplanting some i found in my woods and in some c...Read Moreases, i had to dig down 2 feet. if they were on the bank of th creek where spring floods washed most of the soil away, i dug only 1 foot. once you get them started and they like their new home, they do spread. at first, i pampered m
my one and only, now i can't walk without stepping on them, but i don't care, they are beautif4ul. sorry bout that, HARLEY is helping me. he is a 5 month old tiger stripe i recently adopted along with his sister 4555Dee. they are so named because they sound like a pair of Harleys. i really dod not planto keep them, but that is like saying no to just one more plant.

It's taken me awhile to appreciate this little plant because it comes up in my garden everywhere in early spring. Until the flower emerg...Read Morees, the speckled leaves make my garden appear that it is full of weeds. They seem to thrive at the woodland's edge just where my garden begins. They are not easy to pull. You have to dig the small bulbs to remove or transplant them. The flowers are white here in this corner of Nebraska. I believe they are also called dog-toothed violets.

For the past few years I've been growing E. 'Pagoda'...not sure if it's a cultivar of E. americanum, a hybrid or what. It has done so we...Read Morell here, though. It reminds me so much of walking in the Oregon mountains when I was young and admiring all the Erythroniums. I'm planting more Pagodas each year and now want to try others. I will say that people are not kidding when they say Erythroniums should be planted immediately. They go to hell so fast.

I absolutely love this plant that you folks call the "Trout Lilly" I have heard someone refer to this forest Lilly the name Adder's tong...Read Moreue although I have never called this flower by that name. 60 years ago my father now deceased and his mother Lucy Adalia King Frommherz a widow would take my siblings and I on long walks along the railroad line between Shaw in Marion County south where the tracks would make sweeping cures to skirt old quarries, Oak Trees and pastures. Our outings would usually take use almost to the train trestle about 2 miles north of Aumsville in the mid Willamette Valley. While our town of Shaw may have pre-existed even older as this town, on the Silver Falls Highway 212 itself was only 3 miles north of the old pioneer city of Aumsville. The tracks were much longer due to the winding road on rails of the Southern Pacific. Along the way and in season we made side trips to examine Polly-wogs and Ferns and even looked forward to once again playing in the hollow trunk of an old Big Leaf Maple growing in the marsh land of the Strawberry and Cane Berry growers located at the end of our gravel road. In the meadow and along the Creek that leads several miles through our town to Beaver Creek in the early spring we were always over joyed to see the flowering yellow Lilly that grandma called the "Lamb's Tongue". While we never disturbed these plants or the Trillium and Columbine that grew in the same area for years. Following these off beaten paths came regularly for many years afterward until I grew to tall to climb through the opening into the Big Leaf Maple. I would go back again and again many times in solitary walks to clear my head of the days trials and then taking with me my own children and my partner on walks to this hallowed area where we knew and I knew that we would experience our beloved "Lamb's Tongue" Lilly. Thank you so much for allowing me to reminisce growing and learning to love our natural forests of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Daniel Lewis Frommherz December 2009.

These were a beautiful surprise this spring! Last fall husband brought home a load of sand and left it in a pile due to time restriction...Read Mores. This spring it is covered with beautiful yellow trout lilies! Pretty little flowers and purple spotted leaves. I've been reading on them and the one-leaf plants are just baby plants according to several articles. Guess we'll find out. Will have to find a suitable home for them now. Obviously they are pretty hardy because sand was dumped in a pile and they thrived!

I have this plant growing under a large pecan tree. It gets whatever rain God gives plus the sprinkler in August. It's not spreading fa...Read Morest, but it is progressing slowly.

It prefers somewhat shady conditions and rich, well-drained soil. Flowers bloom in early spring. They typically grow in colonies in woo...Read Moreded areas. According to the "Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Eastern and Central North America", Iroquois women ate the leaves to prevent conception and the plant has anti bacterial properties.

E. americanum is a native flower of the Eastern United States, growing in damp, open woodland areas. The deeply-rooted, small fawn-colore...Read Mored corms colonize forming patches of the this plant among the dead leaf base of the forest floor.

Generally the infertile plants have one leaf, while the fertile plants have two. The leaves are basal, ovate, fleshy, and mottled like a trout's belly. A single flower appears on a central stem in spring. The flower is bright yellow often tinged with purple and finely freckled at the base.

The foliage dies back in summer, but reappears in the spring. This plant will grow from seed, but requires winter/spring stratification and takes 4-7 years to become a mature plant.

Plant bulbs 4 inches deep in autumn in fertile, well drained soil that does not dry out. Bulbs need to be damp during storage and before planting.