Chocolate Lily

Did you know

• Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest cultivated the rice-like bulbils as a starchy food source for thousands of years.
• The mottled brown and green flowers mimic the appearance of decaying material, likely to attract fly pollinators.
• Its bulb produces tiny rice-grain-shaped offsets, giving it the alternate name 'rice root lily.'
• The plant was first described by Western science from specimens collected during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
• Despite looking like it belongs in a tropical forest, this lily thrives in the cool, foggy meadows of the Pacific coast.

Color meanings

Uses

• native plant gardens
• traditional food source
• ornamental