Erythronium mesochoreum
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Midland fawnlily
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Plant
The freshly dug plant is eaten, especially by children.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. It grows in the prairie in southern USA.
North America, USA,
How to Identify
A temperate bulb plant in the Liliaceae family that grows in prairie regions of southern USA.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Erythronium mesochoreum, the prairie fawn lily or midland fawnlily, is a plant species in the lily family, native to the US states of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. Erythronium mesochoreum forms flattened to egg-shaped corms up to 25 mm long. The corms grow offsets in a manner similar to tulips, creating new plants as well as setting seed. Leaves are elliptic to lanceolate, up to 14 cm long. Scape is up to 15 cm tall, bearing only one flower. Tepals are spreading at flowering time, white with blue or purple tinge on the underside and a yellow spot on the upper side. Anthers are yellow, and style is white.
Notes
There are about 22 Erythronium species.
Names & Synonyms
References (3)
- Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M., and James A. Duke. "The Foodplant Database." http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300/cgi-bin/browse/foodplantdb.(ACEDB version 4.0 - data version July 1994)
- Marinelli, J. (Ed), 2004, Plant. DK. p 234
- Moerman, D. F., 2010, Native American Ethnobotany. Timber Press. p 227
