Data specific to Lilies (Edit)
Division: IX. Species and Species Cultivars

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Herbaceous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Other: Shade of delicate pink with rose-pink spotting.
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.

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Common names
  • Lily
  • Species Lily

Photo Gallery
Location: Maine
Date: 2017-07-23
Uploaded by vanozzi
Location: My Garden
Date: 2011-07-19
Uploaded by Nhra_20
Location: Hood, Alabama 
Date: 2023-04-26
Uploaded by dellac
Location: Maine
Date: 2017-07-23
Location: My Garden
Date: 2014-07-27
Location: RHS Harlow Carr alpine house, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-07-15
Location: Hood, Alabama
Uploaded by dellac
Uploaded by BUGGYCRAZY

Photo courtesy of B&D Lilies Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Arcata, CA 95521
Date: 2011-05-01
Uploaded by Nhra_20

Date: 2009-08-05
Credit Epibase

Date: 2008-06-14
Credit KENPEI
Location:  -Tasmania
Date: 23-12-13
Location:  -Tasmania
Date: 24-12-13

Credit Denis Barthel

Credit John Lykkegaard

Date: 2008-06-14
Credit KENPEI

Credit Thorkild Poulsen
Comments:
  • Posted by 4susiesjoy (Leonard, Minnesota - Zone 3b) on Sep 22, 2012 6:59 PM concerning plant:
    Lovely flower but it sends babies in lots of directions. I don't mind, it is so pretty I let it go wherever it wants.
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