Alternate name: Wild Tiger Lily, Oregon Lily

Family: Liliaceae, Lily view all from this family

Description A plant with large, showy, mostly orange, nodding flowers at top of a leafy stem.
Flowers: 2-3" (5-7.5 cm) wide; 6 petal-like segments, each long, strongly curved back behind base of flower, yellow-orange to red-orange, spotted with deep red or purple; stamens 6, with anthers less than 1/4" (6 mm) long.
Leaves: 2-4" (5-10 cm) long, narrowly lanceolate, in several whorls, or not in whorls but evenly scattered along length of stem.
Fruit: plump, 3-sided capsule.
Height: 2-4' (60-120 cm).

Flower May-August.

Habitat Prairies, thickets, and open forests.

Range Southern British Columbia to northwestern California; east to northern Nevada and northern Idaho.

Discussion This is one of the most popular western wildflowers, often dug for the garden, and in some areas now uncommon. The similar Leopard Lily or Panther Lily (L. pardalinum), which grows along forest streams or near springs over most of California, has bright orange-red flowers with anthers 3/8-5/8" (9-15 mm) long.