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The species epithet reflects the flower formation as an umbel. [16] The plant's many common names include garden star-of-Bethlehem, [17] sleepydick, [18] nap-at-noon, [7] grass lily, summer snowflake, snowdrop, starflower, bird's milk, chinkerichee, ten-o'clock lady, eleven-o'clock lady, Bath asparagus, and star of Hungary. The references to ...
It is also sometimes known by many other lily related names such as mountain-lily, [23] white mountain lily, [15] mountain star-lily, [1] desert-lily, [32] and sage lily. [33] It was also occasionally called wild tuberose. [32] In the 1890s in Colorado it was called white crocus, despite not being related to those flowers. [34]
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily [2] [3] or white lily, [4] is a plant in the true lily family. It is native to the Balkans and Middle East, and naturalized in other parts of Europe, including France, Italy, and Ukraine, and in North Africa, the Canary Islands , Mexico, and other regions.
Fleur-de-lis is the stylized depiction of the lily flower. The name itself derives from ancient Greek λείριον > Latin lilium > French lis.. The lily has always been the symbol of fertility and purity, and in Christianity it symbolizes the Immaculate Conception.
The group includes herbaceous, perennial and bulbous species, all native to North America (primarily the Western United States). [5] [6] The genus Calochortus includes mariposas (or mariposa lilies) with open wedge-shaped petals, globe lilies and fairy lanterns with globe-shaped flowers, and cat's ears and star tulips with erect
Toxicoscordion fremontii, known as the common star lily or Frémont's deathcamas (after John C. Frémont) [3] or star zigadene, is an attractive wildflower found on grassy or woody slopes, or rocky outcrops, in many lower-lying regions of California, southwestern Oregon, and northern Baja California.
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Maianthemum stellatum (star-flowered, starry, or little false Solomon's seal, or simply false Solomon's seal; star-flowered lily-of-the-valley [3] or starry false lily of the valley; [4] syn. Smilacina stellata) is a species of flowering plant, native across North America.