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Liliaceae
Black Bead Lily
Clintonia udensis
Forest secrets.
- Family
- Liliaceae
- Genus
- Clintonia
- Native to
- Eastern Asia, Japan, Russia
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- herbaceous perennial
- Height
- 0.5-1.5 ft
- Sunlight
- part shade to full shade
- Soil
- Moist, humus-rich, acidic soil
- Water
- moderate
- Hardiness
- 3-7
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- The glossy black berries that follow the flowers give this plant its common name.
- The genus Clintonia was named after DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York who championed the Erie Canal.
- It spreads slowly by rhizomes, forming dense colonies on the floor of moist mountain forests.
- The broad, glossy basal leaves are sometimes mistaken for wild lily-of-the-valley.
- Black bead lily is an important understory species in the temperate forests of Japan and eastern Russia.
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