The Trout Lily (Erythronium) or Dog Tooth Violet is a small yellow wildflower which grows in northern hardwood forests in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. A spring ephemera, it blooms, produces fruit and dies back before the canopy trees leaf out.
Trout Lily has tulip-like green leaves with silvery-maroon mottled markings. The plants will spread slowly to form colonies, but can take many years to flower. A single, very attractive flower will bloom for just a few days on mature plant early in the spring
