White Trout Lily (Erythronium albidum)

 


    





















 Photo by Levi Plath  

     White Trout Lily grows up to four to eight inches tall and is a native, perennial in Wisconsin. The flower is a single, nodding flower at the end of a stiff naked stalk up to eight inches long. It has six lance-elliptic petals up to 1½ inches long, usually white tinged purplish on the outer surface. The leaves are lance-elliptic to oval to egg-shaped, three to nine inches long, blue green irregularly mottled with purplish brown. It grows in part shade or shade in moist woodlands. (EW)