Erythronium rostratum Texas Runner Lilium and without question

and without question

Sauromatum venosum is a wide-ranging species

the dark pitcher and two five-lobed leaves emerge on a 1' tall fleshy petiole (stalk)

In the eastern US the ruby throated hummingbirds will visit the flowers in years when the blooming corresponds with their arrival

Erythronium rostratum Texas Runner Lilium and without questionErythronium rostratum 'Texas Runner' is an Aaron Floden collection from Sabine County, Texas, of the little known, US native beaked trout lily, which ranges from Ohio south to Texas. The heavily mottled foliage emerges for us in early February and is topped with large, out facing bright yellow flowers starting in late February. This is the earliest of our Erythronium rostratum selections to emerge, and Aaron wonders if this may represent a new,