Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily)
Liliaceae (Lily Family)

Montane. Openings, meadows. Spring.

"Erythro" is Greek for "red" and may refer to the color of some species (not in our area) or to the more often found red anthers.

Meriwether Lewis collected the first specimen of this plant in present-day Idaho near the Clearwater River in 1806.  Frederick Pursh named it in 1814.