Lilium kelloggii
Lilium kelloggii
Lilium is a kelloggii by the American botanist Albert Kellogg (1813-1887) named species in the genus of lilies ( Lilium) in the American Section. Lilium kelloggii is rare in cultivation.
Description
Lilium kelloggii reaches a height of between 50 cm and 120 cm. The bulbs are round and up to 7.5 cm in size. They are unsegmented and form stolons from.
The stem is smooth and straight. The leaves are lanceolate, about 0.9 to 4.4 cm wide and six to sixteen inches long and arranged in two whorls of three to seven to 22 leaves. The leaves are limp towards the tip and are therefore bent downward.
The plant flowers from June to July, five to 30 in a large panicle, often obliquely downward with curved tip, turks collar-shaped flowers. The hermaphrodite flowers are triple. The six petals are alike ( tepals ). The color of the flower is the flowering of ivory white to pink, but then darkens after malvenfarbend or pink. They are densely mottled purple in the middle. Each flower has three carpels and six stamens. The anthers are brown, the filaments green, and orange pollen. The seeds mature in oval 2.9 cm to 5.7 cm large seed capsules.
The species is pollinated mainly by butterflies from the family of Swallowtail butterfly. Mainly doing this Papilio Papilio rutulus and eurymedon.
Dissemination
Lilium kelloggii is in the Klamath Mountains, at home in Humboldt County and southern Oregon. It is often found along roadsides and in redwood forests at altitudes from 200 m up to 1300 m above sea level.