Kóox - Chocolate Lily - Glacier Bay Ethnobotany

Mmm, craving chocolate? A sniff of this flower's bloom might just ruin your craving...

NPS Photo / S. Tevebaugh

Kóox
Chocolate Lily

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The aroma of the chocolate-colored flowers of Kóox attract flies as pollinators but repels humans. The Huna Tlingit harvest the plant’s bulb—which looks like a cluster of white rice—in the spring. Also called “Indian rice,” it is cooked and eaten with wild rhubarb and other berries to balance its bitter taste.