“Trout Time” it is, with anglers lining local streams, but it is also time for an often overlooked wildflower — the trout-lily. Trout-lily is a small yellow wildflower that is so named because its leaf coloration resembles the speckled coloration of Pennsylvania’s native brook trout. Trout-lily is a long-lived perennial wildflower. It occurs in suitable habitat anywhere in the eastern half of the United States and eastern Canada. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, it has been located in every county in Pennsylvania except Juniata, Montour and Columbia. Trout-lily can be found forming massive colonies in rich forest soils and often along trout streams. Because it makes its home in forested habitat, trout-lily is an ephemeral wildflower. Its leaves emerge early, and it blooms in April before the leaf canopy pulls the curtain on its source of life-giving sunlight.