americanum—Best-known Yankee with marbled leaves and bright-yellow flowers in April.
californicum—fawn lily—Mottled leaves, creamy or pale-yellow flowers. (From California, of course.)
dens-canis—dogtooth violet—European emigrant with green leaves splotched with brick red; flowers are rosy purple. Also available in white and other colors.
grandiflorum—Giant of the family, plain leaves, golden flowers in clusters. The variety parviflorum has the most midget flowers. Western.
hendersoni—Mottled leaves, dark-centered purple flowers. Western.
revolutum—Western with brown-blotched leaves, purple-tinged white or lavender flowers. The variety johnsoni has rosy-lilac flowers, white in the center.
tuolumnense—California with unmarked chartreuse leaves, large deep-yellow flowers.
CARE. Woodsy soil, not especially acid, with leaf mold. Drainage. Moist, never hot and dry. Winter mulch.
PROPAGATION. Seeds, offsets (from underground stolons).
SPECIAL USES. Rock gardens, woodland gardens, forcing.