Smell the Flowers Week 9: Carolina lily

Close-up of trout lily (Erythronium americanum) with bee on the central flower. Duke Forest Korstian Division, Durham North Carolina. Photo by Dcrjsr at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bee_on_trout_lily_close.jpg

Week 9, including the week of 3/4 through 3/10 of the Spring 2018 Smell the Flowers fitness challenge at Woodleaf United Methodist Church, highlights Carolina lily or Michaux's lily. This flower, also known as Lilium michauxii, is of the Liliaceae or Lily family. This orange or yellow-orange perennial plant likes shade or filtered shade, grows to a height of about four feet, and typically blooms July and August. It can commonly be found in the mountains and Piedmont, and rarely in the coast of North Carolina.

For more information about the Carolina lily, click here. I couldn't find a picture of the Carolina lily so I placed this trout lily or Erythronium americanum picture on this article instead. Have you ever seen a Carolina lily?

"Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Luke 12:27