Lilium pumilum

Lilium pumilum
Lilium pumilum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Genus:	Lilium
Species:	L. pumilum
Binomial name
Lilium pumilum DC

Lilium pumilum is a bulbous plant native to Mongolia, eastern Siberia, Korea and northern China. It is a stem-rooting bulb that grows up to 1 metre high, though usually rather less. The leaves are slender and grassy. It bears from one to twenty reflexed and nodding flowers, usually red in colour, and which may be spotted with black. The flowers are scented.

Named pumilum (`poo`mill`um) for its small size, compared to other lilies

It has the synonym Lilium tenuifolium.

It may be short lived in cultivation, but tends to last longest in well-drained soils.

References

• European Garden Flora; vol. 1.
• M. Jefferson-Brown; Modern Lilies. Media related to Lilium pumilum at Wikimedia Commons