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Trout Lily (Dog's Tooth Violet, Fawn Lily, Adder's-tongue) (Erythronium Liliaceae americanum)

The trout lily needs rich soils thus will not be found just anywhere in Nova Scotia. Try in and around the Minis Basin: Kings, Hants and Colchester counties. The mature plant can run up to ten inches tall. A pair of leaves (mottled in brown) sheath a single stock on the top of which is a single flower (typical lily look), yellow to the inside and bronzy to the outside. It is an early bloomer and will not be seen much beyond May.

Trout Lily
(Picture provided by Patrick Donoghue.)

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