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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Leaves can be cooked as a leaf vegetable.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Vegetable

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Common names
  • White Avalanche Lily
  • Avalanche-lily
  • White avalanche-lily
  • Avelanche Lily

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Location: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Metchosin, British Columbia.
Date: 2014-04-19
Location: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Metchosin, British Columbia.
Date: 2014-04-19
Location: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Metchosin, British Columbia.
Date: 2014-04-19
Location: Olympic National Park
photo credit: Walter Siegmund
Location: Olympic National Park
Date: 2014-07-10
Spring blooming plant that blooms late in the year in the high mo
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Location: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Metchosin, British Columbia.
Date: 2014-04-19
Location: Mount Rainier National Park
photo credit: Walter Siegmund
Location: Avalanche lily (Erythronium montanum) on Mount Rainier Snow Lake trail
Date: 2010-07-11
Photo courtesy of: Miguel Vieira
Location: Avalanche lily to the left (Erythronium montanum) and western trillium to the right (Trillium ovatum) on Mount Rainier Snow Lake trail
Date: 2010-07-11
Photo courtesy of: Miguel Vieira
Location: St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Metchosin, British Columbia.
Date: 2014-04-19

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