All hybrid tiger lilies have spotted, curved petals and prominent stamens. Hybrid tiger lilies bear the characteristic bulbils in leaf axils.

How do I identify a tiger lily?

Tiger lily is a common name given to a true lily (Lilium) that has bright orange blossoms speckled with dark-brown spots, resembling a tiger’s coloring. The blooms are orange or reddish-orange and have dark-brown speckles covering the petals.

Why do tiger lilies have spots?

These little black growths, called bulbils, are really aerial bulbs. They contain all the genetic material needed to start a new plant. They form between the leaf and stem on tiger lilies and several other hardy lilies. In nature, these bulbils drop to the ground and eventually grow into a flowering bulb.

What is the difference between lilies and tiger lilies?

The bright orange flowers on a true tiger lily point downward and have black dots on their petals. Numerous blooms appear on the stem’s top portion portion at once. These may appear slightly more reddish orange in hue with dark brown spots. In contrast, day lilies face upward and are shaped more like an open trumpet.

What do wild tiger lilies look like?

Flowers are about 4 inches across with 6 orange-red petal-like tepals strongly recurved backward, covered in many purplish brown spots and hairy near the throat. A long style and 6 long stamens flare out from the throat, the stamen tips (anthers) dark rusty brown and up to ¾ inch long.

Are there different types of tiger lilies?

Newer tiger lilies are available in white, cream, yellow, pink, and red, all with black spots.

What is the difference between a Turk’s cap lily and a tiger lily?

But when I began studying and photographing wildflowers (around age 12), I learned that there is a difference–whereas the tiger lily is a robust garden plant imported from Asia, the Turk’s cap is a more slender native species found in swamps and wet road ditches–one that grows increasingly rare.

How do I know what kind of lily I have?

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What flower looks like a tiger lily?

Flore Pleno. To add a bit of drama in the garden, ‘Flore Pleno’ is a double tiger lily, L. lancifolium, and has the characteristic orange coloring with dark freckles, but with double petals. Blooming in mid- to late summer, the fragrant ‘Flore Pleno’ produces up to 25 flowers on 6-feet-tall stems.

What’s the difference between a Michigan lily and a tiger lily?

Differences. Unlike the alternate leaves of the Tiger Lily, the Michigan Lily has leaves that whorl around the stem. The seedpods are quite different also. Where the tiny round bulbets of the Tiger Lily grow around a hairy stem, the native Michigan Lily seedpods form at the tip of the stalk in place of the blossom.