I was browsing through the wiki and looked at the Erythronium page to see what it had to say about the species I'm familiar with. The comment was made about Erythronium revolutum that it likes damp, well- drained conditions. My own experience with this plant is that it likes to grow within sound of running water. In other words, it grows near streams. I've seen it thriving along Sutton Creek in sites that are clearly flooded during winter high-water. "Damp" and "well-drained" in the same breath may seem like an oxymoron, but the point it that while E.r. wants moisture, it doesn't want *stagnant* moisture. It's a streamside plant, not a lakeside or swamp/marsh/bog plant. At the same time, it takes fairly well to summer drought, as long as it doesn't get a baking in the sun like a Central Asian tulip. The same sites on Sutton Creek don't perhaps get as dry as does my garden, but plants collected there (well upstream from the BC govt ecological reserve!) have continued to thrive in the garden with little or no summer water. I will admit that the garden plants are not as robust in growth as they were in the wild. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island