| Division: | IX. Species and Species Cultivars |
| Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
| Life cycle: | Perennial |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic |
| Plant Height: | 4 feet |
| Leaves: | Other: Herbaceous |
| Flowers: | Showy |
| Flower Color: | Yellow Other: With spots |
| Bloom Size: | 2"-3" |
| Flower Time: | Summer |
| Underground structures: | Bulb |
| Uses: | Cut Flower |
| Toxicity: | Other: All parts of the plant are lethal to cats |
| Propagation: Seeds: | Will not come true from seed Other info: Species lilies will come true from seed; cultivars and hybrids will not. |
| Propagation: Other methods: | Offsets Other: Bulb scaling. |
| Pollinators: | Bees |
| Containers: | Not suitable for containers |
![Location: Lilium lancifolium as L. tigrinum splendens [top] with L. leichtlinii [bottom]
Date: c.1870
illustration by Worthington G. Smith from 'The Floral Magazine',](/pics/2020-02-13/scvirginia/25ec58-250.jpg "Location: Lilium lancifolium as L. tigrinum splendens [top] with L. leichtlinii [bottom]
Date: c.1870
illustration by Worthington G. Smith from 'The Floral Magazine',")
| MrsBinWY | On April 9, 2022 | Plant emerged On 4-9-2022, 3 of the Seedling A pot of bulbils that have been sitting next to the house are up 0.5-1". |
| MrsBinWY | On July 18, 2021 | Transplanted On 7-18-2021, planted all of these in the back side yard, along the fence between Hibiscus moscheutos and Verbesina alternifolia. 18-20 half-dollar-size bulbs, dozen or so more at the single-leaf stage (guess the seeds kept germinating). None of the 3 that bloomed so far (2 in 2020 and 1 in 2021 - don't know if was same as one of the 2020 blooms) bloomed like the species. Will probably have a strange mixed bed to sort out. |
| MrsBinWY | On August 18, 2020 | Miscellaneous Event Three seedlings that didn't bloom produced bulbils. 8-10 bulbils of "seedling A;" 13 bulbils of "seedling B:;" and one bulbil of "seedling C." As of 11-26-20, they're pretty much all still growing, with one to three leaves. |
| MrsBinWY | On January 9, 2019 | Seeds germinated 2 - These (plus a couple dozen more) grew until late fall 2019. Watered the container mid-December, or so, and they started coming back up the end of December. By late February or early March, it was obvious 1 was going to bloom. It developed 2 buds. As of 3-22-20, another plant is just beginning to show a single bud. |
| MrsBinWY | On December 29, 2018 | Seeds sown lots of seeds from Dale's 2017G in milk jug @ room temp (These seeds are from her very tall lilies in the east bed under the poplars, later IDed on the Lily forum as L. leichtlinii.) |
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