Erythronium dens-canis

Erythronium dens-canis L. (S-Eur., temp. As.) – An exceptional escape from or relic of cultivation. Known from one location in Wépion (Parc de la Marlagne) where it was said to be naturalized in the 1950’s. (as was mentioned on a herbarium label of a collection made by Jean Lebeau in 1955). In 2019 a small population with four individuals was also observed in young woodland in Melle.

Selected references

Borza T., Groza G., Dragos N. & Coman N. (1998) Morphological and genetic variation in some populations of the endemic Erythronium dens-canis var. niveum and the widespread Erythronium dens-canis var. dens-canis. Contrib. Bot. Univ. Babes-Bolyai Grad. Bot. (Cluj-Napoca) II 1997-1998: 39-50.

Hendrych R. (2004) Erythronium dens-canis und seine Geschichte in Böhmen (in Czech). Zprávy České botanické společnosti (Prague) 39(2): 185-216. [available online at: https://botanospol.cz/sites/alienplantsbelgium.bedefault/files/2018-02/Z...

Jelitto C.R. (1977) Erythronium dens-canis der Hundszahn. Palmengarten 40(1): 20.

Rowland N.A. (1992) The Erythronium dens-canis complex. BSBI News 60: 66. [available online at: http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BSBINews60.pdf]