Paige wrote about Erythronium: >Has anyone seen more than three flowers on a stem? Some years ago I raised a group of erythroniums from seed obtained from Phyllis Gustafson, who said it came from her garden and was hybrids between E. hendersonii and E. oregonum. The results bear out this cross, showing a range of intermediate color and marking patterns in the flowers. At least one of the plants regularly produces five flowers on a stem. You could also say that E. multiscapideum (the "new old" spelling of what we long knew as multiscapoideum) produces more than three flowers on a stem, because the flowering scape (stem) branches below ground level so that it looks as if a single bulb is producing multiple scapes. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA