General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 6 - 12 inches
Plant Spread: 6 - 12 inches
Leaves: Other: Leaves can be cooked as a leaf vegetable.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Vegetable
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Seeds are hydrophilic
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • California Trout Lily
  • California Fawn Lily
Also sold as:
  • Erythronium revolutum 'White Beauty'
  • Erythronium 'White Beauty'

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Location: My garden
Date: April 28, 2009
Location: My garden
Date: April 26, 2011
The sun does not set in the south. I used a distant streetlamp as
Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2018-04-14
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-04-19
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-04-08
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden
Location:  Tallinn Botanic Garden, Estonia 
Date: 2023-05-20
Location: SunZone 6a
Date: 2018-05-12
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2019-04-19
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden
Date: 2023-03-25
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-05-04
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-04-24
Great woodland naturaliser
Location:  Tallinn Botanic Garden, Estonia 
Date: 2023-05-20
Location:  Tallinn Botanic Garden, Estonia 
Date: 2023-05-20
Location: Part Shade z6
Date: 2012-04-17
Early charm.Loves a woods like setting.
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden
Date: 2023-03-25
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-04-19
Location: Howick Hall, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2014-04-18
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2018-04-18
On the woodland floor

photo credit: Andrei Korzun
Location: Part Shade Z6
Date: 2011-04-30
Location: Part Shade z6
Date: 2012-04-17
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-04-06
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: Apr 8, 2010 12:22 PM
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: Apr 8, 2010 12:16 PM
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-04-06
Attractive to bees!
Location: Part Shade woodsie Pittsford NY Z6a
Date: 2010-04-28
These are so cheerfull in early April.
Location: Part Shade Pittsford NY Z6
Date: 2011-04-30
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Comments:
  • Posted by eclayne (Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA - Zone 6a) on Jul 21, 2012 8:33 AM concerning plant:
    Sometimes sold as Erythronium revolutum 'White Beauty' or Erythronium 'White Beauty'.
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Nice plant by gardengus Oct 30, 2011 7:17 AM 3
That's a beauty by springcolor Apr 18, 2012 11:59 AM 9

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