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
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Yellow and green
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.

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Common names
  • Pyrenean Lily
  • Lily
  • Species Lily
  • Straw Coloured Turk's Cap

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Location: Alnwick garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-06-08
Location: Stanton Hall garden and nursery, Northumberland
Date: 2009-05-27
Photo by Brownianmotion

Date: 2015-07-05
Credit Isidre blanc

Photo courtesy of: Jose Vicente Ferrandez

Credit Jean-Pol GRANDMONT
Location: Alnwick garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-05-31

Date: 2015-07-05
Credit Meneerke bloem
Location: Lilium Pyrenaicum growing wild on a hedgebank in the parish of Molland, Devon, where it is known as the Molland Lilly PD
Date: 2000-07-24
Credit Lobsterthermidor

Photo courtesy of: Jose Vicente Ferrandez
Location: Alnwick garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-05-11

Date: 2009-07-14
Credit Meneerke bloem

Date: 2008-07-15
Credit Olaf Leillinger

Credit Thorkild Poulsen  Lilium pyrenaicum var rubrum

Photo courtesy of: Jose Vicente Ferrandez

Lilium pyrenaicum A monograph of the genus Lilium; illustrated by

Date: 2012-09-15
Credit Didier Descouens
Location: Stanton Hall garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2021-05-01
Location: Stanton Hall garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2021-05-01

Photo courtesy of B&D Lilies Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Alnwick garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2008-05-03

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