Lilium hansonii

Lilium hansonii
Lilium hansonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Lilium
Species: L. hansonii
Binomial name
Lilium hansonii

Lilium hansonii is a vigorous early–flowering stem–rooting true lily. It has elliptic to inversely lanced–shaped leaves, pale green, up to 7 inches (18 cm) long and carried in whorls of 12–20 leaves. In early summer it produces racemes of up 10–14 small, nodding, fragrant, flowers with recurved tepals of a brilliant orange–yellow. The tepals are fleshy and show purplish–brown spots near the base. The plant grows to 3–5 feet (1–1.5 m) tall. It is native to East Siberia, Korea and Japan.[1]

Lilium hansonii is named for Peter Hanson (1821–1887), a Danish–born American landscape artist who was an aficionado of tulips and also grew lilies.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Brickell, Christopher, ed. (1996), RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, London: Dorling Kindersley, ISBN 978-0-7513-0436-7 , p. 613
  2. ^ Coombes, Allen J. (1992), The Hamlyn Guide to Plant Names, London: Hamlyn, ISBN 978-0-600-57545-0 
  3. ^ "Peter Hanson, the artist", New York Times, 23 February 1887, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30A13F63D5D17738DDDAA0A94DA405B8784F0D3, retrieved 21 July 2011