DCHP-3

glacier lily

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several alpine plants of the genus Erythronium having white or yellow flowers.

Quotations

1952
All about him patterns of color sprang suddenly from the sod, as if they had been evoked by the viewer . . . the first glacier lilies, slim and regally yellow.
1964
Up where the Glacier Lilies blow / Late May and June still sees fresh snow. . . .