Lilium Tourn. ex L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya

Introduced into:

Algeria, Argentina Northeast, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Costa Rica, Denmark, DR Congo, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madeira, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Norway, Ogasawara-shoto, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sweden, Tanzania, Tunisia, Utah, Victoria, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families database update import Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 225 (1875).
• L., Sp. Pl.: 302 (1753).
• Woodcock & Stearn, Lilies World: 113 (1950).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Elwes, Monogr. Genus Lilium 1–83 (1877–1880)
• Gen Pl. 5th ed.: 143 (1754)
• McRae, Lilies: 1–392 (1998)
• Sp. Pl. 1: 302 (1753)
• Synge, Lilies: 1–276 (1980)
• Woodcock & Stearn, Lilies of the World: 1–431 (1950)