Wood lily
Lilium philadelphicum L.
other common names: orange cup, orange lily, wild orange lily, tiger lily, huckleberry lily, glade lily, flame lily, wild orange-red lily
Lilium: an ancient classical Latin name for lily, which probably was derived from a still more ancient Greek name
Philadelphicum: meaning “of Philadelphia”
Lily family: Liliaceae
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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