Floral Friday – Wildflower
Also called the Fawn Lilly or Dog Toothed Violet, these flowers come from plants rooted and growing for six or more years. Each bulb can be found about a foot or so deep with plenty of company. When you find one, you’ve most stumbled into a whole colony. Its perseverance is our visual treat.
I love these little ephemerals with the green and mahogany leaves. Here today and gone next month!
And thoroughly enjoyed while they last!
One of my favorite spring flowers.
I agree, and the leaves add to the interest
I will look for these on my next hike in Oregon. Lovely.
Happy trails, when your searching for one thing it seems you find a bounty of other interesting things.
So very true!
So beautiful! A new flower again. Have to find out finnish name.
Would be interesting to know
I couldn’t find a finnish name for that lilly. Do you know it’s latin name?
Erythronium americanum. Lilly family, Liliaceae
Thank you. We don`t have it here, but its name koiranhammas. I am sure that you don´t guess what it is. It is Dogs Tooth.
Dogs Tooth is one of its common names, I think the trout comparison fits better, interesting.
Lovely shots!
Thank you!
They really do look like the sides of a nice speckled trout fish! 🙂