General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Leaves: Other: Leaves can be cooked as a leaf vegetable.
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Vegetable

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Common names
  • Dogtooth Violet
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Erythronium americanum subsp. americanum
  • Synonym: Erythronium americanum f. castaneum

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Date: c. 1816
illustration [as E. flavescens] by P. Bessa from 'Herbier Génér

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