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 Trout Lily - Erythronium americanum

 Trout Lily - Erythronium americanum

One of this area's earlies blooming Lilies, this species derived its common name from the resemblance (some see) of the mottled leaves to the pattern found on a trout. Iroquois women ate the raw leaf as a contraceptive.


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