Pyrenean Lily

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
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.
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