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
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Plant Height: 4-6 feet
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Bloom Size: 6"-12"
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

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Common names
  • Sargent's Lily
  • Lily
  • Species Lily

Photo Gallery

Date: 2023-09-19

Date: 2021-08-24
First year from bulbils.

Nice reverse

Date: 1912
photo from 'The Garden', 1912

Date: 2021-09-19
First year from bulbils.

Date: 2023-07-09

Date: 2023-07-09

Photo courtesy of B&D Lilies Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2022-05-02

Date: c. 1917
photo from Wilson's 'Aristocrats of the Garden', 1917

Date: 2023-07-09

Date: 2023-07-09
Uploaded by Joebass
Location: Botanical Garden University Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-10-23
Comments:
  • Posted by gwhizz (Rosetta,Tasmania,Australia - Zone 7b) on Oct 29, 2011 6:04 PM concerning plant:
    A lovely Chinese Trumpet species, with perfumed, ivory white flowers, brushed on the back with hints of rose and green.This species produces stem bulbils, which can be easily grown to flowering size in 2-3 years

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