Photo Details
1. May 16, 2005 - near Arches National Park, Grand County,
Utah - 2.May
30, 2004 - Near
Promontory Point, Box Elder County, Utah - ©Nicky
Davis
Description
Plants up to a foot high and are topped with flowers
nearly 3 inches across. Its satiny-white petals have velvety patches of
dark maroon and yellow at the base. Sparse leaves are lance shaped.
Other
Utah
State Flower. March
18, 1911, the sego lily was named the Utah State Flower. From
1840
and 1851" food became very scarce in Utah due to a crop-devouring
plague
of crickets, and families learned to dig for and to eat the
soft, bulbous root of the sego lily. The memory of this use, quite as
much
as the natural beauty of the flower, it was selected as the floral
emblem
of the State. The bulbs can be eaten raw, fried or baked but it
is
illegal to dig the lilies.
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