Lilium pardalinum

California tiger lily

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

California tiger lily is a native perennial found in northern California forests and montane areas at elevations of 100 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces large pendent flowers with pale orange to red petals marked with maroon spots edged in yellow, ranging from 3.4 to 10.4 centimeters long. Growing up to 2.8 meters tall with a spreading, often branched bulb, it develops multiple stems that can produce 1 to 28 dramatic bell-shaped blossoms. Its leaves are alternate or arranged in whorls, typically 4 to 27 centimeters long and elliptic in shape, spreading along the stem. The plant's complex flower structure features widely diverging filaments with magenta to orange anthers that produce red-brown to yellow pollen.

California counties: Lassen, Santa Cruz, Plumas, Santa Barbara, Mendocino, Shasta, Lake, Kern, Tulare, Monterey, Humboldt, Nevada, Trinity, Placer, Tehama, Inyo, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Sierra, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Marin, Mono, Mariposa, Fresno, Alameda, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Madera, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Mateo, Sonoma, Tuolumne, Yuba, Contra Costa, Colusa, San Diego, Napa

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