Taxon: Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.

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Common names:

• amberbell   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• trout-lily   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• yellow adder's-tongue   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• érythrone d'Amérique   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• bronsfärgad hundtandslilja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

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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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland [e.], Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.e.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [e.], Minnesota, Missouri [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Delaware, Georgia [n.w.], Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi [n.e.], North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

• 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).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Mathew, B. 1992. A taxonomic and horticultural review of Erythronium L. (Liliaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 109:461–462. [with two spp.].
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Erythronium americanum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Erythronium americanum.

Check other web resources for Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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:

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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