Lilium distichum explained

Lilium distichum is an Asian species herbaceous plant of the lily family which is native to northeastern China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning), Korea, and eastern Russia (Primorye, Amur Krai, Khabarovsk).^[1]

Lilium distichum flourishes among shrubs and in forests. It grows from 2- tall. The stem is cylindrical and slender with a single whorl of leaves mid - way up the stem. It also has much smaller oval leaves sparsely, alternately on the upper stem.

The flowers are yellow - orange or orange - vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced’ in appearance with irregular distribution of petals around the face of the flower forming a fanshape. The tips of the petals are reflexed. 2 - 10 flowers are carried on an inflorescence in July and August.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

The name distichum refers to the two types of leaves the plant carries.^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=279963 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=120&taxon_id=200027713 Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 138 东北百合 dong bei bai he Lilium distichum Nakai ex Kamibayashi, Chosen Yuri Dzukai. t. 7. 1915
3. Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
4. Czerepanov, S.K. (1995). Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former USSR): 1-516. Cambridge University Press.
5. Denisov, N. (2008). Addition to Vascular flora of the Kozlov island (Peter the Great Gulf, Japanese sea). Turczaninowia 11(4): 29-42.
6. Guide to Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes, Hamlyn, London. 1992.