Taxon: Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh

See also subordinate taxa:

• Erythronium grandiflorum subsp. candidum (no accessions)
• Erythronium grandiflorum subsp. grandiflorum (1 accessions)

Common names:

• avalanche-lily   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• glacier-lily   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• skredhundtandslilja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], British Columbia [s.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [w.], Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [n.w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.], Utah

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mathew, B. 1992. A taxonomic and horticultural review of Erythronium L. (Liliaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 109:466–467.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Erythronium grandiflorum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Erythronium grandiflorum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Erythronium grandiflorum.

Synonyms:

• Erythronium grandiflorum var. parviflorum S. Watson [= Erythronium grandiflorum subsp. grandiflorum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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