Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Erythronium albidum
FAMILY
Liliaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erythronium albidum
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Erythronium albidum var. albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erythronium albidum
COMMON NAME:
White Trout Lily, Blonde Lilian, White Fawnlily
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_eral9_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090404_033
April Walker County GA
The Pocket on Pigeon Mountain
Plants densely colonial. Sterile corms numerous, fertile corms few, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Erythronium albidum
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erythronium albidum
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Erythronium albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Erythronium albidum var. albidum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erythronium albidum
535
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rich, mesic forests, over calcareous substrates or in very nutrient-rich alluvial soils, per Weakley's Flora
Native north and west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (2)
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals
6 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p152
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p131
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p128
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p338
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p171
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p358
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p414
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p009
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