DESCRIPTION

Perennial plant with large scaly bulb, up to 1 m tall. Orange or saffron flowers, punctuated with black to tepals up to 6 cm.

​

HISTORY

Lily: comes from the Latin lilium or the Celtic word li which means white.

​

HABITAT

Brush, meadows, cracks of the rocks, up to 2000 m of altitude.

​

PARTICULARITIES

Known more popularly as the "beautiful of a day" because the pretty orange lily flowers last only one day. Its flower can not fertilize itself as for example that of the lily martagon.

​

THREAT

This flower is protected, do not pick it !

​

​