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Chocolate lily / Fritillaria affinis / checker lily, Mount Townsend, Buckhorn Wilderness, Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA

A Chocolate lily (Fritillaria affinis) flower blooms along Mount Townsend trail, in Buckhorn Wilderness, Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA. Fritillaria affinis (also called checker lily, rice root fritillary, or mission bells) is a tall herbaceous perennial plant, a member of the Lily Family (Liliaceae). The stems are 20-50 cm tall, sturdy and unbranched, bearing 1-3 whorls of 5-11 lance-shaped leaves. Chocolate lily has bowl-shaped, distinctly nodding flowers with six tepals which are brown-mottled with green or yellow. Chocolate lily is found in open dry woods and meadows from southern coastal British Columbia eastward to the Okanagan in eastern Washington and south to California. The bulbs of chocolate lily were eaten by most Coast and Interior Salish peoples, either boiled or steamed in pits. Chocolate lily, also called “rice root” by Indian people, has bulblets that look like grains of rice.

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A Chocolate lily (Fritillaria affinis) flower blooms along Mount Townsend trail, in Buckhorn Wilderness, Olympic National Forest, Washington, USA. Fritillaria affinis (also called checker lily, rice root fritillary, or mission bells) is a tall herbaceous perennial plant, a member of the Lily Family (Liliaceae). The stems are 20-50 cm tall, sturdy and unbranched, bearing 1-3 whorls of 5-11 lance-shaped leaves. Chocolate lily has bowl-shaped, distinctly nodding flowers with six tepals which are brown-mottled with green or yellow. Chocolate lily is found in open dry woods and meadows from southern coastal British Columbia eastward to the Okanagan in eastern Washington and south to California. The bulbs of chocolate lily were eaten by most Coast and Interior Salish peoples, either boiled or steamed in pits. Chocolate lily, also called “rice root” by Indian people, has bulblets that look like grains of rice.
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