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
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Herbaceous
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Other: Black spotted with green and yellow streaks.
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
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
  • Lily
  • Species Lily
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lilium concolor var. partheneion
  • Synonym: Lilium concolor var. pulchellum

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Date: c. 1880
illustration by W. H. Fitch from Elwes' 'Monograph of the Genus L
Location: Seed Vortex 2 ,Rosetta -Tasmania
Date: 3 DEC 2012
Comments:
  • Posted by gwhizz (Rosetta,Tasmania,Australia - Zone 7b) on Dec 2, 2012 10:21 PM concerning plant:
    This is such a small, dainty and finely formed flower, I missed seeing it yesterday {I must have blinked}..very waxy and hard to photograph.

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