Erythronium propullans A.Gray

Bulbs ovoid, 10–25 mm; stolon 1 in flowering plants, arising from halfway up stem, 1–3 from bulbs of 1-leaved, nonflowering plants. Leaves 4–13 cm; blade green, irregularly mottled, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, ± flat, glaucous, margins entire. Scape 3.9–12 cm. Inflorescences 1-flowered. Flowers: tepals 4–6, strongly reflexed at anthesis, pale pink to white, darker abaxially, lanceolate, 8–15 mm, auricles absent; stamens 2–6, 6–8 mm; filaments white, lanceolate; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; style white, 6–10 mm; stigma ± unlobed. Capsules very rarely produced; when present, may be result of hybridization with Erythronium albidum.

It is a temperate plant. It grows near rivers and on flood plains.

It is normally grown from bulbs.