Lilium columbianum
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Lilium columbianum is a plant type from the genus of lilies ( Lilium ) in the section Pseudolirium .
description
The small, deep-seated onion has thick, white scales; from it the plant forms a stem that can grow up to 150 centimeters, sometimes with a waxy, shiny stalk ; which is occupied in the lower half with one to nine whorls of three to 25 lanceolate leaves each.
Lilium columbianum bears several yellow-orange, turkish- shaped flowers on a panicle from June to July . The hermaphrodite flowers are threefold. The six equally shaped bracts ( tepals ) are strongly bent back and 3.5 to 6.9 cm long. The flower is densely covered with purple dots. Each flower contains three carpels and six stamens. The filaments that deviate by 10 ° to 20 ° from the flower axis are green, the anthers pale yellow to yellow and the pollen are orange. After flowering, the plant forms 2.2 to 5.4 cm long seed pods with 135 to 330 seeds each , which germinate delayed- hypogean .
distribution
Lilium columbianum is native and widespread in the United States in Northern California , Oregon , Nevada , Montana , Washington and Idaho as well as in British Columbia in Canada .
It grows in the shrubbery ( chaparral ), the macchia- like vegetation on the Pacific coast of North America , between rocks or in the prairie or open forests at altitudes of up to 1600 m .
use
The Indians used the onion of Lilium columbianum as food, or dried and ground as a spice, often together with salmon roe . For many Indian tribes this type of lily was a staple food.
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literature
- Mark W. Skinner: Lilium columbianum . In: Flora of North America . tape 26 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-515208-1 , pp. 185 ( online [accessed February 2, 2009]).
Web links
- Markus Hohenegger: Lilium columbianum. In: The Genus Lilium. Retrieved February 2, 2010 .