# What kind of flower is this?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 14, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930 "2011-05-14T20:58:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930/1 "2011-05-14T20:58:28Z")

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Location: In and around woods of Western New York

Sorry for the less-than-stellar images.

[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)  
[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)

What kind of flower is this?

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**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930/2 "2011-05-14T21:34:01Z")

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The best answer I can give without a better picture is a lily. Possibly a daylily from the color and shape.

Can you add something for scale to the next picture? Knowing the size and seeing the leaves would be a big help.

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**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930/3 "2011-05-14T21:45:35Z")

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It’s hard to tell with no sense of scale, but to me it looks like a trout lily, aka dog’s tooth violet.

[Erythronium americanum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythronium_americanum)

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**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930/4 "2011-05-14T21:55:51Z")

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The blue tiles under it are about 4 inches by 4 inches.

I think you got it with the Trout lily guess. The leaves in [this image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/TroutLillyGadsnCo2003.jpg) look just like the leaves I’ve seen in the wild.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581930/5 "2011-05-15T00:23:04Z")

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Never mind.