Floral Friday – Wildflower
Adult Speckled Trout Leaf
Three Petals and Three Sepals
Trout Lilly
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! 🙂