Lilium humboldtii

Lilium humboldtii (Humboldt's lily) is a species of lily endemic to California named after naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

It is native to the South High Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, south Outer South Coast Ranges, and Southwestern California, growing at elevations from 600 metres (2,000 ft) to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft).

It grows up to 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, with flowers that are maroon-spotted, golden-orange with dark red splotches, with orange to brown stamens. The plant flowers in June, with flowers growing in a pyramidal inflorescence.

The flowers are on stout stems, which are sometimes brown-purple. The subrhizomatous bulb is large, with yellowish-white scales, and grows very deep in the soil.

The leaves grow in whorls, and are undulate, shiny, and oblanceolate. It is summer-deciduous, dying back after flowering in mid- to late summer.

There are two subspecies, Lilium humboldtii subsp. humboldtii, and Lilium humboldtii subsp. ocellatum. Both are on the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants.

Albert Kellogg, unaware that the plant had already been named by Roezl and Leichtlin, gave it the name Lilium bloomerianum. For some time afterward, the name was still applied to the southern California L. subsp. ocellatum.



Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium_humboldtii


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