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  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›lilies, supplejacks, and allies
  6. ›lily family
  7. ›true lily subfamily
  8. ›true lilies and allies
  9. ›Lilium
Lilium sect. Martagon
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Lilium sect. Martagon

Martagon

Lilium (/ˈlɪliəm/ LIL-ee-əm) is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. Most species are native to the Northern Hemisphere and their range is temperate climates and extends into the subtropics. Many other plants have "lily" in their common names, but do not belong to the...

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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 1542830.