Lilium rubescens

Redwood lily, Redwood Lily

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Redwood lily is a California native perennial found in northwestern California and San Francisco Bay Area bioregions in dry soils of chaparral and conifer forest gaps at elevations of 30 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces funnel-shaped white to pink-purple flowers with minute magenta spots, 4.2 to 6.6 centimeters long, that recurve dramatically in their upper third. Growing up to 2 meters tall with an erect-ovoid bulb, it develops 3 to 9 whorled leaves that are oblanceolate and gently wavy. Its leaves are generally ascending, 3 to 13 centimeters long, and arranged in distinctive whorls along the stem. The fruit is 2 to 3.7 centimeters long with visible ribbing.

Habitat: dry soils in chaparral, gaps in conifer forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 30-1800 m

Bioregions: NW, SnFrB.

California counties: Lake, Napa, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Trinity, Mendocino, Los Angeles, Del Norte, Shasta, Sonoma, Glenn, Santa Cruz

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.