Seasonal Wild Flowers

Pyrenean Lily

Lilium pyrenaicum

Yellow Turk's-Cap Lily, Yellow Martagon Lily

Liliaceae

May to July

It is scattered in the North, the West Midlands, the

Southwest and around London.

For a map see the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

It is a neophyte which has been grown in UK gardens since

the mid 1590s and known in the wild since the 1850s.

The escape is naturalised grows on hedge banks and in

roadside verges and open woodland.

Pyrenean Lily is a bulbous perennial herb growing up to

1m.

The flowers are up to 5cm across, showy and nodding.

They have 6 petalous tepals which are yellow with

numerous dark spots.

There are 6 stamens with large, brick-red anthers.

There is a single, long, fleshy, green style and a 3-lobed

stigma.

The fruits are capsules.

Leaves are linear-lanceolate and for a dense spiral up

the stem.

Pyrenean Lily on a hedge bank

Flower buds and opened flowers

Yellow tepals with black spots

Anthers, style and stigma

Linear leaves in a spiral up the stem