Sego Lily (Calochortus Nuttalli)   Sego Lily is the state flower of Utah. Buy state flowers

Kate C. Snow, President of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in a letter dated April 17, 1930, says that between 1840 and 1851, food became very scarce in Utah due to a crop-devouring plague of crickets. Families were put on rations. During this time they learned to dig for and to eat the soft, bulbous root of the sego lily. The memory of this use, as much as the natural beauty of the flower, caused it to be selected as the floral emblem of the State. The sego lily, has white, lilac, or yellow flowers and grows six to eight inches high on open grass and sage rangelands in the Great Basin during the summer months. ********

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