How to identify Yellow Trout Lilly, or Erythronium americanum. Yellow Trout Lilly is a very commonly seen wild edible of spring that can be found in moist habitats. Spring wild edibles are popular, but this plant is not. Once we learn how to identify Yellow Trout Lilly, we can safely learn how to harvest it for food. Other popular wild edibles, include plants like the Spring Beauty, Cut Leaved Tooth Wort, Solomon's Seal and more! Learning how to identify Yellow Trout Lilly can also separate it from it's wild edible cousins, also in the Erythronium family. This flower bears the characteristics of other Lilly species. It is yellow in flower color, however its flowers are closed during shade, and open when sunny.
It's leaves are simple, lance shaped to oblong and can grow to several inches in length. The leaves also have purple colored mottled spots on the top, but none on the underside. This feature separates it from the white flowered varieties of Trout Lilly. There are no teeth or lobes along the margin of the leaf, making it a simple leaf to learn. The leaves are also basal, meaning the grow on the ground level.
The flowers are yellow and are characteristic of the Lilly family. Drooping and bell like in shape, these flowers are easy to spot when growing.

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