This yellow trout lily is close to blooming but hopefully it waits a week until it is done snowing and below freezing nights. I have several patches of single leaf trout lilies but those do not flower, only the plants with two basal leaves will blossom. So hopefully the deer won’t nibble on this one when it finally opens since I have so few of them.

Lily Not Open Yet

The hepatica blossoms finally lifted up when the sun finally came out this afternoon, but they are still the only wildflowers that I have found so far this spring. I did find one leaf of the yellow trout lily, but blossoms only appear when there are two basal leaves which may take seven years before it blooms. A colony of the yellow trout lily may only have .5% plants that will bloom. so I don’t see a lot of these yellow blossoms.

Yellow Trout Lily

Last year must have been tough on the Yellow Trout Lily corms as so far I haven’t noticed any blossoms. Immature shoots only have one leaf instead of two leaves which the mature plants have and produce the flower. It takes four to seven years before it blooms and within the colony, only about a half of a percent will flower.

Missing Trout Lily Blossom