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∙ 12y agoBecause Utah's schoolchildren picked the flower. It is a beautiful white flower.
The Mormon Pioneers ate the bulb of the flower to survive when the food supply was scarce.
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What is the Utahs flower?
The Sego Lily
What state is the sego lily the state flower?
The Utah state flower is the Sego lily.
State flower of Utah?
The Sego Lily is Utah's state flower. It is a yellowish or brightish yellow, dark violet and red, sometimes, and white. For most pictures of the Sego Lily, go to Google images and type in Sego Lily.
What is a kind of lily that ends with the letters go?
The sego lily, which is the state flower of Utah.
How did Utah get its state flower?
The sego lily was made the official state flower after a census was taken of the state's school children as to their preference for a state flower
Does the sego lily live in the rain forest?
No. It lives in the desert and is the State Flower of Utah.
What color is a sego lily flower?
white
What part of the Sego Lily can you eat?
The edible part of the sego lily is the bulb, but be cautious, the sego lily can resemble very toxic flowers.
Why was the sego lily important to the early pioneers?
Because when the pioneers didn't have food because of the cricketts, they ate the roots of a sego lily.
What is an edible lily bulb?
The Lily family is a fairly big one, there's lot's of edible as well as poisonous bulbs within the family. To know them all, you'd have to get a lot of studying under your belt. The most commonly eaten Lily bulb, though, is the Tiger Lily.
Are the roots of a sego lily edible?
yes.
What is the bell shaped lily called?
sego
