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Lilium canadense - common lily of the eastern United States having nodding yellow or reddish flowers spotted with brown

Canada lily, meadow lily, wild meadow lily, wild yellow lily

lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers

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Any garden or park I visit, my eyes seek out the lilies or the "lily beds." By the way, VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, has a very nice bed of Lilium martagon and Lilium canadense.

Lily addicts anonymous

sinuatus (bugle-weed), Scutellaria galericulata (skull-cap), Solidago lanceolata and squarrosa East Branch (golden-rod), Diplopappus umbellatus (double-bristled aster), Aster radula, Cicuta maculata and bulbifera (water-hemlock), meadowsweet, Lysimachia stricta and ciliata (loose-strife), Galium trifidum (small bed-straw), Lilium Canadense (wild yellow-lily), Platanthera peramna and psycodes (great purple orchis and small purple-fringed orchis), Mimulus ringens (monkey-flower), dock (water), blue flag, Hydrocotyle Americana (marsh pennywort), Sanicula Canadensis?

Of these, those conspicuously in flower the last of July, 1857, were: rue, Solidago lanceolata and squarrosa, Diplopappus umbellatus, Aster radula Lilium Canadense, great and small purple orchis, Mimulus ringens, blue flag, virgin's-bower, &c.

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