Minnesota

Montana

Indiana

Alien

Multiple

Beargrass
	Beargrass Xerophyllum tenax These big headed flowers grow at forest edge and in meadows of the mountains of Northwest Montana. The head is six inches across. They are listed to bloom from May-August. Bears eat the young shoots and Mountain Goats eat the older leaves. They will grow together in large colonies on hillsides.
Iris
	Blue Flag Iris versicolor Lily Family Similar to the domestic iris. Grows in standing water.
	Yellow Flag Iris pseudocorus Lily Family Grows in standing water. This one is from William O'Brian State Park in Minnesota, but I have seen this at Birdland RV Park in Thompson Falls, MT. Photo by David M. Johnson
Clintonia, Trout Lily, Glacier Lily
	Clintonia Clintonia Lily Family The leaf looks like dogtooth violot but the flower is quite different. This one was growing near Eagle Mountain in the Arrowhead part of Minnesota.
	Glacier Lily Erythronium grandiflorum Lily Family At about 8000' near Whitefish I ran into a giant patch of Glacier Lilies. What a joy!
	Sego Lily Erythronium grandiflorum Lily Family This is all over the lot in Montana
Nodding Onion
	Nodding Onion Allium cernuum Lily Family This speciman was along a woodland mountain trail near Thompson Falls, MT. The flowers appear on a nodding umbel. This plant is in the fruiting stage.
Trilliums Plants are generally about a foot high with three leaves on top of a stem.
	Nodding Trillium Trillium Lily Family This picture was taken by laying the camera on the ground and shooting up. The flower is hidden under the leaves.
	The Declining Trillium, T. nivale, has a longer peduncle.
	Coast Trillium Trillium ovatum Lily Family The western trillium has a smaller flower than the Showy Trillium. Both will have the flower turn pale purple with age as shown with this speciman.
	Showy Trillium Trillium Grandiflora Lily Family This trillium is heavy in the woods of Minnesota. The flower turns purple with age. A purple Trillium emerges yellow and stays purple. The flower is slightly smaller.
	Showy Trillium Purple Trillium Lily Family A purple Trillium emerges yellow and stays purple. The flower is slightly smaller. I have not seen this in the wild only at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden.
	Sessile Trillium Trillium sessile Lily Family
This wildflower is what I called as a child purple trillium. The purple trillium is similar to the showy but purple. This upfacing flower is a deep dark marroon. Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden does have a couple of specimen. The dappled leaves are quite nice when not in bloom.
Solomonseals and Related. These plants have alternating leaves from a central stalk with flowers either underneath or at the end.
	False Solomonseal Marianthemum canadense Lily Family Notice, the berry stage. The berries occur at the end for the False Solomonseal.
	Starry False Solomonseal has a small starry cluster of flowers. Could not determine if this was one.
	Smooth Solomonseal Polygonatum biflorum Lily Family Notice, the berry stage. The berries occur under the stalk at the nodes for the Solomonseal. These are reportedly poisonous.
	Large-flowered Bellwort Uvularia grandiflora Lily Family The leaf structure is much the same as Solomonseal with a large yellow hanging flower at the end.
	Fairy Bells Disporium trachycarpum Wartberry Family The leaf structure is much the same as Solomonseal with two dangling little white bell flowers hanging at the end. Bloomes in June.
	Indian Poke Veratrum viride Lily Family The leaves are quite large almost like an orchid. The flower is green on a tall shoot. Within pods on the spikes are clusters of green flowers. The plant grows in moist areas in the mountains. Also grows in Minnesota but I have not seen it there.
Water Lilies and Related.
	White Waterlily Nyphaea tuberosa Waterlily Family The flower opens up during the heat of the day but is closed in the early morning and in the evening. Photo by David M. Johnson