Erythronium citrinum

Erythronium citrinum, known as the citrus fawn lily or cream fawn lily, is a flowering plant in the lily family that is endemic to the Klamath Mountains, where it grows in southwest Oregon and adjacent northwest California. It belongs to the genus Erythronium, which ranges across northern North America, Europe and Asia and is most diverse in California, home to fifteen of the roughly twenty-eight members of the genus. The plant grows in open woods and on shrubby slopes and is more or less confined to serpentine soils. It blooms in early spring and can sometimes be seen flowering in profusion. The flowers sit on stems six to eight inches tall above a pair of broad, mottled leaves up to about six inches long. The blooms are creamy white with a yellow center, and the tips of the tepals turn pinkish as they age. The stigma is only very shallowly three lobed and the anthers are white, features that help separate it from close relatives such as Erythronium howellii, Erythronium hendersonii and Erythronium oregonum, which grow in the same region.