Lilium duchartrei ( Duchartrei Lily )

L. duchartrei is a stem-rooting lily with rhizomatous bulbs and brown-flushed green stems bearing lance-shaped, stalkless leaves with rough margins. Produces umbels of up to 12 scented, nodding, recurved white flowers, deep purple-spotted inside, and purple-tinged, aging to red outside. […]

Lilium dauricum ( Dauricum Lily )

L. dauricum is a stem-rooting lily with rhizomatous bulbs and brown-spotted green stems. Hairy-margins, lance-shaped to linear leaves. Produces in midseason, umbels of up to 6 medium-sized, unscented, upward-facing, bowl-shaped, deep orange-scarlet flowers, with yellowish orange centers, and hairy stalks. […]

Lilium concolor ( Morning Star Lily )

L. concolor is a stem-rooting lily with reddish-green stems bearing scattered, linear to lance-shaped leaves, slightly hairy on the margins and beneath. Bears racemes or umbels of up to 10 fragrant, upward-facing, star-shaped, glossy scarlet flowers. W. China. There are […]

Lilium chalcedonicum ( Heldreichii Lily )

L. chalcedonicum is a relatively small lily with spirally arranged, lance-shaped, deep green leaves with silver margins, the lower leaves are spreading, the upper ones erect. In midseason, bears racemes of unpleasantly scented, recurved, bright red flowers. Grow in any […]

Lilium catesbaei ( Catesbaei Lily )

L. catesbaei, blooms in two to five orange scarlet flowers spotted with brown on purple stems 18 inches tall. Lilium, a genus of about 80 species. Leaves are lance-shaped, arranged in whorls. The flowers are funnel or bell shaped with […]

Lilium candidum ( Madonna Lily )

Reportedly one of the oldest flowers in civilization, it was depicted in Egyptian and Cretian ruins, the madonna lily grows to a height of 3 to 4 feet tall and has white, trumpet-shaped, mid-spring flowers. This shallow-growing bulb develops rosette […]

Lilium canadense ( Meadow Lily )

L. canadense has rhizomatous bulbs and lance-shaped leaves each with 5 to 7 parallel veins. Produces umbels or occasionally racemes, of up to 30 faintly scented, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers with recurved tips and maroon spots in the centers. There are […]

Lilium bulbiferum ( Croceum Lily )

Var. croceum has orange flowers and does not produce bulbils. L. bulbiferum is a vigorous lily producing scattered, lance-shaped leaves with marginal hairs. In midseason, produces usually 1 to 5 flowered umbels of unscented, erect, bowl-shaped, bright orange-red flowers, the […]

Lilium bolanderi ( Bolanderi Lily )

L. bolanderi, has bluish green leaves in four whorls of 12. Blooms in bell shaped flowers in a shade of velvety purple, slightly spotted with burgundy on the outside. Does well in northern California and Oregon. Lilium, a genus of […]

Lilium auratum ( Platyphyllum Lily )

Lilium auratum var. platyphyllum has broadly lance-shaped leaves, and bears flowers with a yellow band along each tepal and few spots. There are approximately 100 species of lilies. A bulbous perennial, that originated in wooded areas of Europe and Asia, […]