Fritillaria pudica
Yellow Fritillary

Family: Liliaceae (Lily family)

Photo taken at Anderson Canyon, open wooded slope

Flowers:

usually solitary, campanulate, nodding; tepals alike, gland bearing near base, yellow, with age turning reddish or purple, oblong lanceolate to oblanceolate, 12-26 mm by 4-10 mm

Leaves:

alternate; generally 2; linear to lanceolate; 3-20 cm long

Plant:

perennial; erect and unbranched; glabrous. Traditionally the bulbs were cooked and eaten or dried for future use by the Okanagan-Coville, Okanagan, Shuswap, and Thompson.

Habitat:

grassland and sagebrush desert to conifer forests

Distribution of species:

east Cascades, British Columbia to northern California, east to Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada

Distribution of genus:

more or less 100 species: northern temperate