Family Code: LILIAC Genus Code: ERYTH3 Genus CN: fawnlily Genus Authority: L. Genus Summary: A genus of about 25 species, north temperate and subarctic, of North America and Eurasia (especially diverse in w. North America). Genus Identification: Identification notes: Stolons are white shoots produced from the bulb. Most run horizontally, either underground or along the ground surface but beneath leaf litter. Flowering individuals often produce no stolons. The stolon characters in the key below are those of non-flowering individuals and refer to horizontal stolons only. Genus References: Parks & Hardin (1963)=Z; Mathew (1992)=Y; Allen & Robertson in FNA (2002a); Tamura in Kubitzki (1998a). Last Updated: 2019-11-29 Publish: 1