Lilium washingtonianum

Washington lily

Family: Liliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Washington lily is a California native perennial found in mountainous regions of the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and northern California in mixed conifer forests and open woodlands at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers with delicate magenta spots turning deep pink, with large funnel-shaped blossoms nodding gracefully and measuring 6 to 11 centimeters long. Growing up to 2.6 meters tall with slender stems and whorled leaves, it develops an oblique-elongate bulb with unsegmented or partially segmented scales. Its leaves are spreading to ascending, approximately 3 to 13 centimeters long, with oblanceolate blades and slightly wavy margins that clasp the stem. The plant produces strongly fragrant flowers with stamens extending beyond the perianth and cream-colored anthers bearing yellow pollen.

California counties: Nevada, Butte, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Plumas, Shasta, Placer, Mariposa, Lassen, Fresno, Modoc, El Dorado, Tehama, Madera, Lake, Del Norte, Trinity, Tuolumne

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