Lilium canadenseL.

Canada lily

WFO wfo-0000684824 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lilium canadense, photographed by John Abrams
fig. a John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-14 / obs. 143417241
Lilium canadense, photographed by Elias
fig. b Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146190698
Lilium canadense, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145573349
Lilium canadense, photographed by Elias
fig. d Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142467662
Lilium canadense, photographed by CatherineK
fig. e CatherineK, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142811322
Lilium canadense, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. f Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141423673
Lilium canadense, photographed by Chelsea Carroll
fig. g Chelsea Carroll, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141187123
Lilium canadense, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. h Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141010947

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Flowering n = 1,203 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,203 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 19 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.

  • Lilium canadense f. canadense
  • Lilium canadense f. flavum (Pursh) Vict.
  • Lilium canadense f. peramoenum (Farw.) B.Boivin & Cody
  • Lilium canadense f. rubrum Britton
  • Lilium canadense var. canadense
  • Lilium canadense var. coccineum Pursh
  • Lilium canadense var. editorum Fernald
  • Lilium canadense var. flavum Pursh
  • Lilium canadense var. hartwegii Baker
  • Lilium canadense var. pluriflorum Hook.
  • Lilium canadense var. rubroflavum T.Moore
  • Lilium canadense var. rubrum T.Moore
  • Lilium canadense var. uniflorum Hook.
  • Lilium michiganense f. peramoenum (Farw.) Stoker
  • Lilium penduliflorum Redouté
  • Lilium pendulum Spae
  • Lilium peramoenum Farw.
  • Lilium philadelphicum subsp. editorum (Fernald) Wherry
  • Lilium pulchrum Salisb.

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.