Description

Erythronium americanum, Trout lily, Native Bare Root Perennial

Attractive Flowers:
Average to moist soil:
Average Wildlife Value:
Beneficial Insects:
Butterflies:
FAC – Occur in wetlands and non-wetlands:
Groundcover:
Herbaceous plant:
Hummingbirds:
Loamy Soil – mostly silt, sand, some clay:
Moist Soil:
Native To Mountain Regions:
Occasionally wet soil (non-tidal):
Organic soil – high level of decayed leaves, bark:
Part – Full Shade (less than 4 hours):
Part Sun – Part Shade :
Perennial:
Pollinator support:
Songbirds:
Threatened / Endangered:
Wildflower:
Woodland flower:

Erythronium americanum is a North American species of herbaceous flowering plant in the lily family. The range is from Labrador south to Georgia, west to Mississippi, and north to Minnesota.

Best grown in moist, acidic, humusy soils in part shade to full shade. In addition, offsets from mature plants may be harvested and planted. Plant corms 2-3” deep and 4-5” apart in fall. Corms of this species produce stolons, and plants will slowly spread to form large colonies if left undisturbed in optimum growing conditions. . This is a spring ephemeral whose foliage disappears by late spring as the plant goes dormant.

Our plants are cultivated on private property and not dug from the wild.