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
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Orange
Flower Time: Summer
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Vegetable
Cut Flower
Edible Parts: Roots
Eating Methods: Cooked
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
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
  • Lily
  • Miss Willmott's Lily
  • David's Lily
  • Species Lily

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Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2024-02-12
Lily (Lilium davidii var. willmottiae).
Location: Minnesota
Date: 2007
Emerging sprouts
Location: Minnesota, USA
Date: 2009-07-03
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2024-01-04
Lily (Lilium davidii var. willmottiae)
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2024-01-28
Lily (Lilium davidii var. willmottiae) propagation from lily bulb

Date: c. 1937
photo from the 1937 catalog, Yerex Bulb Gardens, Tigard, Oregon
Location: Arcata, Ca 95521
Date: 2010-06-16
Discussion Threads about this plant
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Smoke stack form sprouts by Leftwood Sep 9, 2012 8:17 PM 0

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