Erythronium oregonum Applegate

Bulbs narrowly ovoid, 25–60 mm, sometimes producing sessile offsets. Leaves 12–25 cm; blade distinctly mottled with irregular streaks of brown or white, ovate to broadly lanceolate, margins wavy. Scape ± reddish, 15–40 cm. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered. Flowers: tepals white to creamy white with yellow base at anthesis, sometimes pinkish in age, sometimes with red lines or bands, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 25–40 mm, inner with small auricles at base; stamens 12–25 mm; filaments white, flattened, ± lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide; anthers cream to yellow; style white, 12–18 mm; stigma with recurved lobes 3–6 mm. Capsules oblong to narrowly obovoid, 3–5 cm. 2n = 24.

It is a temperate plant. In Canada it grows in open conifer forests and on rocky outcrops. It suits hardiness zones 4-9.

The bulbs are dried and used for food. They can be eaten raw, baked or boiled.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.