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Yellow trout lily

Erythronium americanum subsp. americanum

Érythrone d'amérique

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The most common spring flowers in its environment (maple groves). The trout lily may form a spectacular vast carpet of yellow flowers with mottled leaves.

Territory:

In southern Quebec wherever there are maples, so until Témiscamingue northwest and Saguenay northeast.

Habitat:

Maple groves, in places not too dry or not too wet or not too steep.

Flowering:

In bloom in late April early May.

Similar:

In 2011 the White trout lily (Erythronium albidum), white flowers, was spotted near Montreal, apart from this the Trout lily is the only Erythronium present in Quebec.
Yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
Yellow trout lily : 1- Flowering plant
Yellow trout lily : 2- Flower
Yellow trout lily : 3- Flower with yellow stamens
Yellow trout lily : 4- Leaves
Yellow trout lily : 5- Close flower
Yellow trout lily : 6- Opening flower
Yellow trout lily : 7- Full open flower
Yellow trout lily : 8- Full open flower back view
Yellow trout lily : 9- Fruit
Yellow trout lily : 10- Flowering plants
Yellow trout lily : 11- Colony flower back
Yellow trout lily : 12- Colony flower back view
Yellow trout lily : 13- Colony
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