Lilium pardalinum
Habit | bulbous
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Height: | ⇕ | 2 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2. to 2.5 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 2.5. |
Bloom: | ❀ | mid summer |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Water: | ◍ | moist |
Features: | ✓ | flowers |
USDA Zones: | 5 to 9 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | red, orange, yellow, multicolored, spotted |
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Lilium pardalinum, sometimes known as the panther lily or leopard lily, is a native of Oregon and California, where it usually grows in damp areas. Typically it grows to about two meters high, the tallest and most vigorous plants can reach up to 2.5 meters. The flowers are Turk's-cap shaped, red-orange, with numerous brown spots, usually flowering in July. The bulbs are small, and many are usually clustered together on a rhizomatous stock.
ExpandRead about Lilium pardalinum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Cultivation
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Propagation
By dividing bulbs, scales, planting bulbils and from seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse (stratify if indoors).
Pests and diseases
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Species
There are five subspecies:[1][2]
- Lilium pardalinum ssp. pardalinum Kellogg -- leopard lily
- Lilium pardalinum ssp. pitkinense (Beane & Vollmer) Skinner, comb. nov. ined. -- Pitkin Marsh lily
- Lilium pardalinum ssp. shastense (Eastw.) Skinner -- Shasta lily
- Lilium pardalinum ssp. vollmeri (Eastw.) Skinner -- Vollmer's lily
- Lilium pardalinum ssp. wigginsii (Beane & Vollmer) Skinner, comb. nov. ined. -- Wiggins' lily
The subspecies Pitkin Marsh lily, Lilium pardalinum ssp pitkinese, is federally listed as an endangered species.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
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