Fritillaria affinis(Schult. & Schult.f.) Sealy

checker lily

WFO wfo-0000767653 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. a Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 201361761
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Ken-ichi Ueda
fig. b Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205323482
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. c Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201300419
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. d Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201361919
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. e joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204719638
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. f Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201361126
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. g Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201361252
Fritillaria affinis, photographed by Arvel Hernandez
fig. h Arvel Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201300444

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Flowering n = 9,218 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 9,218 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fritillaria esculenta Nutt. ex Baker
  • Fritillaria eximia Eastw.
  • Fritillaria lanceolata Pursh
  • Fritillaria lanceolata var. floribunda Benth.
  • Fritillaria lanceolata var. gracilis S.Watson
  • Fritillaria lanceolata var. tristulis A.L.Grant ex Jeps.
  • Fritillaria lanceolata var. viridis Tubergen
  • Fritillaria lunellii A.Nelson
  • Fritillaria multiflora Kellogg
  • Fritillaria mutica Lindl.
  • Fritillaria mutica var. gracilis (S.Watson) Jeps.
  • Fritillaria phaeanthera Purdy
  • Lilium affine Schult. & Schult.f.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.