Family: Liliaceae, Lily view all from this family
Description The several large, fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers, delicate, waxy white or pale pink, often dotted with minute purple spots, bloom at top of a stout leafy stem.
Flowers: 3-4" (7.5-10 cm) wide, with 6 petal-like segments.
Leaves: 2-4" (5-10 cm) long, lanceolate, scattered on lower portion of stem, in several whorls on upper part.
Height: 2-7' (60-210 cm).
Flower June-July.
Habitat Brush or open forests.
Range Northern Oregon to the mountains of northern California and the southern Sierra Nevada.
Discussion Northern races tend to be more deeply colored. Near Mount Shasta, in northern California, there is a race of this species called the Shasta Lily that has more narrow spaces between the petal-like segments. Chaparral Lily, Lilac Lily, Redwood Lily, or Chamise Lily (L. rubescens), which grows in brush or woods in the Coast Ranges of central and northern California, has smaller flowers, 1 1/2-2 1/2" (3.8-6.3 cm) long, that are at first white with purple spots but age to a rich wine color.
