MYN / Clay Bolt / Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) in flower, Greenville, USA, March. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Clay Bolt / Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) flower head, Greenville, USA, March. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Clay Bolt / Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) flower head, Greenville, USA, March. meetyourneighbours.net project

Adrian Davies / String lily (Crinum americanum) in flower, Corkscrew Swamp, Florida, USA

Jerry Monkman / A trout lily {Erythronium americanum} flower, Lemington, Vermont, USA

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Eastern tent moth (Malacosoma americanum) caterpillars on communal web. Tennessee, USA

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Eastern tent moth (Malacosoma americanum) caterpillars on communal web. Tennessee, USA

Matthias Breiter / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) flowering, Cordova, Alaska

Rupert Barrington / Caterpillar larvae of Eastern tent moth {Malacosoma americanum} on silken spun tent, Central Park, New York, USA

Rupert Barrington / Scaffolding to film Eastern tent moth larvae {Malacosoma americanum} in Central Park, New York City

Gerry Ellis / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) in old growth temperate rainforest, Misty Fjords National Monument, Alaska

Steven David Miller / Swamp with swamp lilies {Crinum americanum}, Everglades, Big Cypress Basin, Florida, USA.

Steven David Miller / Swamp lily {Crinum americanum} food of white tailed deer, Florida, USA

Jan Vermeer / Yellow Asphodel (Narthecium americanum) close up of dew-covered flowers, increasingly rare species in eastern United States

Jan Vermeer / Yellow Asphodel (Narthecium americanum) close up of dew-covered flowers, increasingly rare species in eastern United States

Sumio Harada / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum), Rocky Mountains, North America

Matthias Breiter / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) showing bright yellow spathe surrounding the club-like spadix, Cordova, Alaska

Tim Fitzharris / Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) blossom showing anthers, Ontario, Canada

Barry Mansell / Eastern Tent moth (Malacosoma americanum) mass caterpillars nest, in top of bush, North Florida, USA

Paul D Stewart / Mastodon teeth engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First discove...

Paul D Stewart / 'Grand Mastodon' engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First disco...

Paul D Stewart / Elephant skeleton engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils to reveal their affinities and differences...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate illustration of Giant Ground Sloth by Laurilliard, engraving by Couet, (from Bru), Plate 1 in Cuvier's account in 'Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle' 1804, Vol. 4, No 29. Cuv...