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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