Family: Liliaceae
Scientific Name: Erythronium hendersonnii
Common Name: Henderson's fawn lily
Description | A native western American plant. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizoms, etc. |
Hardiness Zone | 5 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | aveage |
Flowers | lily-like, nodding, tepals light to dark purple at tips, fading to white toward the center, dark purple centers, borne on a raceme |
Leaves | basal leaves, mottled |
Stems | upright stem pale pink to reddish, leafless, subterraneum stem a bulb |
Roots | fibrous off of bulb |
Dimensions | 12 plue inches |
Propagation | bulbs, slow to increase |
Native Site | Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California in schrubb and woodlands. |
Cultivar Origin | Species is named for Louis F. Henderson, who has been called "The Grand Old Man of Northwest Botany." |
Notes & Reference | #112-Bulbs of North America (Jane McGary) |
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