Stats

Lifespan

Perennial

Size

Medium

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

East Asia

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Bulbs

Defense

Toxins

Status

Uncommon

About

This orange lily grows in the wild forests of East Asia and North America. It produces tiny black bulbils in its leaf axils that drop to sprout into new plants.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Liliales

Family

Liliaceae

Genus

Lilium

Species

Lilium lancifolium