Erythronium americanum Silver Pigeon Green Flowering Plants orchid-like flowers at the end

orchid-like flowers at the end of each stem

and a quick way to hide your untidy neighbors

This old pass-along Southern hybrid is probably a cross between our native Crinum americanum and Crinum bulbispermum

John Fairey and North American Rock Garden Society director

Erythronium americanum Silver Pigeon Green Flowering Plants orchid-like flowers at the endWe are pleased to share an amazing form of our US native (Canada south to Alabama) spring ephemeral trout lily, Erythronium americanum, which was discovered near Pigeon Mountain, Georgia by our friend, UK plantsman Graham Birkin, in 2012. In our garden, this rare solid silver leaf selection of the typically mottled species has shown amazing vigor, forming a 2' wide patch, that increases steadily via short rhizomes. For us, the summer dormant clumps