Cascadia yellow fawn lily

                     

Yellow avalanche lily

           
Erythronium grandiflorum, Glacier Lily, Yellow Avalanche-Lily, Cascadia yellow fawn-lily, family Lily family (Liliaceae)
               

the full moon in sidereal Virgo, two distinctive, Lily leaves at the base, Its two green leaves are wavy-edged and up to 20cm here about 8 inches, blade green, lanceolate, base gradually narrowed to petiole, margins here smooth entire.
                   

     The are 6 nodding tepals pointed, 6 in number, bright yellow, anthers red, or purplish red; with bright yellow pollen. Blooms Soon after snow melt.

                     

    Fond of snow field edges in Cascadia growing south from British Columbia into the mountains south to Colorado.