Alp Lily

The Alp lily, scientifically known as Lloydia serotina, was not always called that it was first named mountain spiderwort. This flower Starts out looking like a piece of dark grass and gets to be about 6 inches tall, but then in June a six petal white flower, with brown purplish veins blooms. The stem only has about two long thin leaves. Alp lily grows in rocky terrain, mountain tops and sense it grows high up on mountains it’s not eaten much by animals. Places like North America, the western states, throughout Alaska, Great Britain and New México. In the British Isles global warming is affecting the life of the alp lily, scientist say that it might be the first of the plant family to be extinct there.

http://science.halleyhosting.com/nature/basin/3petal/lily/lloydia/lloydia.htm

http://montana.plant-life.org/species/lloydia_sero.htm

http://www.enature.com/flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=WF0448

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydia_serotina