Prosartes maculata is a North American species of plants in the lily family with the common names yellow mandarin, spotted mandarin, or nodding mandarin.Flora of North America, Prosartes maculataHorn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 413, , It is a perennial plant that flowers in the spring.Buckley, Samuel Botsford. 1843. American Journal of Science, and Arts 45(1): 170–171, as Streptopus maculatusGray, Asa. 1844. American Journal of Science, and Arts 47(1): 201, Prosartes maculata Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1888. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 15(7): 188, as Disporum maculatum
It is a native plant of the Great Smoky Mountains and occurs in other parts of the Appalachian region from northern Georgia and northeastern Alabama to southern West Virginia and southern Ohio. There are old reports of isolated populations from near Detroit, Michigan, but these appear now to have been lost to urban development.Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
Prosartes maculata is a herb that grows up to 80 cm tall. Its flowers are bell-shaped, nodding (hanging downward), cream-colored with purple spots.
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