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unknown plants and status (native or no?) help please.

fairy_toadmother

17 years ago

1. i have been wondering for years what this lily is. there were old houses in the area, so i don't know if they were planted. they never multiply. there have been only 2 for 6 years. unfortunately, i forgot my camera while it was blooming. the petals are red and curved like turks cap types. i have cropped and you can see the bloom stalks in the pic. it is about 3-4' tall.

close up of leaves

2. this pic is probably too blurry but i will try anyway. oh, both this and above are in a full sun meadow type. it has the purple blooms that are very small. plant is no more than 2' tall, but the soil is poor.

3. this one is growing in the rocks along the creek. purple flowers. lobelia? monkey flower?

there is another that i thought was monkey flower but has very fine foliage. it hasn't bloomed yet. or, i am remembering incorrectly. i need to refer back to my field guide.

thanks!

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geoforce
17 years ago
Could well be Turk's Cap Lily. Lilium supurbum is native over here in our area, and across much of the northeastern US. It is not L. tenuifolium (Tiger lily) and that is the only common escapee from older home sites.

Supurbum is easily identified as It has a flower whose petals shade from red-orange on the tips to yellow or gold further in, and there is a pleasant green star in the center of the flower.

George
Judy_B_ON
17 years ago
The last one sure looks like monkey flower
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fairy_toadmother
Original Author
17 years ago
thank you george! makes me wish i timed this better! i also wondered about canada and michigan lilly. but, i am sure the foliage is different. nwo that i look, i think the petals were much more curved than the canada. but, this looks very similar in a diff color: http://www.nearctica.com/flowers/liliace/Lcanad.htm

i am so confused. i am also posting this michigan lily for future reference! http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/mich_lilyx.htm

definitely not wood lily

thanks judy! i thought so. :)

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