Dimpled Troutlily

Bulbs ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolons absent, or 1 per bulb on 1-leaved plants. Leaves 5–17 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, ± flat, not glaucous, margins entire. Scape 4–18 cm. Inflorescences 1-flowered. Flowers: tepals strongly reflexed at anthesis, yellow, sometimes with brownish adaxial spots, variously tinged brown-purple abaxially, lanceolate, 13–30 mm, auricles absent; stamens 9–18 mm; filaments yellow, lanceolate; anthers brown, purple, or infrequently yellow; pollen brown, purple, or infrequently yellow; ovary apex indented; style deciduous or forming small apiculum, ± terete, not yellow, 8–24 mm; stigma lobes spreading, 1.2–1.7 mm. Capsules ± resting on ground due to reclining peduncle, obovoid, 10–22 mm, apex indented, umbilicate, or rarely rounded. 2n = 24.

Erythronium umbilicatum, the dimpled trout lily, is a species of flowering plant in the lily family. It is native to the Southeastern United States, primarily in the Piedmont and Southern Appalachian areas. It is reported from West Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Erythronium umbilicatum is a spring ephemeral and its preferred habitat is forests. It has egg-shaped bulbs up to 25 cm long. Leaves are up to 20 cm long, mottled. Scape is up to 20 cm long, bearing one yellow flower, sometimes with brown spots on the tepals.