Common name: Yellow glacier lily; Avalanche lily
Family: Liliaceae
Information: A yellow flowered lily that flowers splendidly early in the spring, and found in more southern BC alpine locations (below about 53 degrees N latitude, though with changing climates its range may begin to extend further north).
Photos: A mesic meadow along the ridgetop in the Manning Park alpine area, about 1930 m altitude. This photos was taken in 2020, a year of unusually late blooming (by about 2 weeks) due to heavy rains and cool cloudy conditions throughout June and early July. S Wood – N Hewitt, July 8 2020.
Sources and additional resources:
Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Erythronium%20grandiflorum%20ssp.%20grandiflorum Accessed: 2020-07-10.
Pojar, J. & MacKinnon, A. (2014). Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon & Alaska. Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.
