Canna Lilies
Canna
Canna (or canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of 10 species of flowering plants. The closest living relations to cannas are the other plant families of the order Zingiberales, that is the Zingiberaceae (gingers), Musaceae (bananas), Marantaceae, Heliconiaceae, Strelitziaceae, etc.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Indian shot
speciesCanna indica
Garden Canna
hybridCanna × hybrida
Golden Canna
speciesCanna flaccida
water canna
speciesCanna glauca
Canna tuerckheimii
speciesCanna tuerckheimii
Canna jaegeriana
speciesCanna jaegeriana
Canna paniculata
speciesCanna paniculata
orchid canna
hybridCanna × orchioides
Canna iridiflora
speciesCanna iridiflora
Canna bangii
speciesCanna bangii
Canna liliiflora
speciesCanna liliiflora
Canna lineata
speciesCanna lineata
Canna pedunculata
speciesCanna pedunculata
Canna tandilensis
speciesCanna tandilensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.425
Tractado de las Drogas y Medicinas de las Indias Orientales
Cristóvão da Costa · 1578 · p.390
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.109
Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao (Vol. 1)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.25
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.196
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.197
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.198
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.107
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.108
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica
Willem Piso · 1658 · p.283
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.116
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.117
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Canna in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 127280.