毛百合 Lilium pensylvanicum

  • Scientific Name: Lilium pensylvanicum Ker Gawl.
  • Ref: Bot. Mag. 22: t. 872. 1805
  • Synonyms: Lilium dahuricum Reuthe, L. dauricum Ker Gawl., L. formosum Lem., L. sachalinense Vrishcz, L. spectabile Link
  • English Common Name: Daurian lily
  • Chinese Common Name: 毛百合 máo∙bǎihé
  • Japanese Common Name: エゾスカシユリ [蝦夷透百合] ezosukashiyuri
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Lilium
  • Distribution: Open forests, bushy slopes, hillsides, moist meadows; 400–1500 m. Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol [Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia (Far East, E Siberia)].
  • Photo: 07/14/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin
Bulb ovoid-globose, ca. 2 cm in diam.; scales white, broadly lanceolate, 1--1.4 cm × 5--6 mm, articulate or not. Stem (30--)50--70(--120) cm, not papillose. Leaves scattered plus 4 or 5 in a whorl at apex of stem, sessile, linear, rarely to lanceolate, 4--5 cm × 3--4(--25) mm, 3--5-veined, margin papillose, sometimes also sparsely white woolly, base with a cluster of white woolly hairs. Flowers 1 or 2(--6). Tepals vermilion or red, with purple-red spots, rarely with yellow claws; outer ones oblanceolate, (3--)7--9 × 1.5--2.3 cm, abaxially white woolly, sometimes glabrous; inner ones slightly narrower; nectaries deep purple papillose on both surfaces. Stamens converging; filaments ca. 5 cm; anthers ca. 1 cm. Ovary ca. 1.8 cm. Style ca. 4 cm. Capsule oblong, ca. 5 × 3 cm. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep. 2 n = 24*. (Flora of China)

07/14/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin

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