A Gallery of Erythronium Flowers

Where I come from, we call it the dog-tooth violet and its flowers carpet the forest floor in the early spring, before the trees begin to leaf. Its official name is yellow trout lily, because the mottling of the leaves resembles the back of a brook trout.

This is the “true” dog-tooth violet. The pink color justifies calling it a violet and also justifies the generic name erythronium, since erythros is Greek for red.

The leaves of this species aren’t actually mottled, but the image looks more interesting that way.

Erythronia belong to the lily family, so they have a bulb underground, like an onion. The name dog-tooth comes from the shape of the bulb.

Fictional. At a wake, it will protect the departed against malign influences.

A combined portrait of two friends.

Greek and Latin don't have a “sh” sound, only an “s”.

The leprechaun erythronium.

Sirius, the dog star, α Canis Majoris (the alpha star in the constellation of the Big Dog). During the northern winter, it is the brightest star in the night sky. This portrait shows how it looks from space, which is bluer than it looks from Earth’s surface.