Lilium is a large genus in the Liliaceae family. Information and pictures of species on the PBS wiki are found on section pages. This wiki page is for the Martagon Section. Other sections and hybrids are linked below.
American Section A-M - American Section N-Z - Asiatic Section A-C - Asiatic Section D-K - Asiatic Section L-O - Asiatic Section P-Z - Candidum Section - Dauricum Section - Oriental Section - Trumpet Section - Lilium Hybrids - Lilium Index
Lilium hansonii is native to Korea. It will grow to well over 120cm (4 feet) but many years will be as short as 60cm (24 inches). The foliage is whorled; the florets are sweetly scented, yellow with brown spotting, down facing and basically flat faced. It crosses with various Lilium martagon varieties. It does not suffer late spring frosts well and when hit by a late frost, it will take a couple years to recover. Three photos submitted by Darm Crook.
Lilium martagon is native to central Europe through northern Asia to Mongolia and Korea. It may be slow to establish, but is very long lived and can form large clumps; with its many varieties it is another fine lily. It has naturalized in Quebec, Canada and is widely grown in cool winter areas of North America. It has a Turk's Cap form, rather thick petals, and the scales of the bulb are yellow. It is very free flowering with up to 50 flowers on a stem with whorled leaves that can reach 60 inches in height. It remains in flower for a long time and can be grown in sun or part shade where it will be shorter. The species is pale to deep (rather dull) pink but the varieties can be found with yellow, purplish-pink, red or carmine flowers. First five photos from Janos Agoston. Photos six to eight in a garden setting by Darm Crook
Lilium martagon var. album There are two forms of this variety, a short and a tall one. The short form grows from 25 to 37cm (12 to 18 inches) tall with up to 12 florets per stem thay never fully recurve and are almost a L. hansonii flower form. The tall form will grow up to 1.18m (4 feet) with up to 64, maybe more, fully recurved florets. First two photos are of L. martagon variety album short form; the next four photo are of the tall form taken in a garden setting by Darm Crook.
Lilium martagon var. hirsutum Grown from seed, photo by Ron Moodycliffe. This variety is from Europe (Southern Alps). The Kew checklist suggests that it is synonym for var. martagon.
Lilium tsingtauense is native to China and Korea. It will grow up to 95cm (3 feet) tall. The florets are orange, upfacing, unpleasantly scented and flat with heavy to almost no spotting of dark orange to brown. The foliage is set in whorls and (most plants) will show a marbling of various shades of green. It will cross with martagons and martagon hansonii hybrids. Five photos submitted by DarmCrook.
American Section A-M - American Section N-Z - Asiatic Section A-C - Asiatic Section D-K - Asiatic Section L-O - Asiatic Section P-Z - Candidum Section - Dauricum Section - Oriental Section - Trumpet Section - Lilium Hybrids - Lilium Index