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
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Toxicity: Other: All parts of the plant are lethal to cats
Propagation: Seeds: 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
  • Grace of the Pasture
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lilium apertum
  • Synonym: Nomocharis aperta
  • Synonym: Nomocharis forrestii

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Location: Nieuwoudtville, Western Cape, South Africa
Image by Spencer C. H. Barrett, University of Toronto

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Date: 2008-05-23
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Date: 2008-06-06
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Date: 2015-07-12
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