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
Fruiting Time: Summer
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
Other: Apricot orange with a tinge of pink spotted in purple-black.
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
  • Species Lily
  • Lily

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Location: BG KEW
Date: 2008-08-19
Credit Michelle Bartsch

Date: 2022-12-02

Date: 2022-04-11

Date: c. 1840
illustration from 'The Botanist', 1840
Location: Japan
Date: 2014-08-17
Credit Kumiko

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