Yellow Glacier Lily blooms at the edge of melting snowfields in Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast mountain ranges, often emerging through snow. Grizzly bears dig the corms extensively in spring when they first emerge from hibernation and fat reserves are depleted. Bumblebee queens and early native bees are critical pollinators.
Habitat
Subalpine meadows, often blooming at receding snowpack edges
Diet
Corms dug by grizzly bears in spring; pollen for queen bumblebees
How common
Common
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