# Lilium distichum

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**Lilium distichum** is an [Asian](/source/Asia) species herbaceous plant of the [lily family](/source/Liliaceae) which is native to northeastern [China](/source/China) ([Heilongjiang](/source/Heilongjiang), [Jilin](/source/Jilin), [Liaoning](/source/Liaoning)), [Korea](/source/Korea), and eastern [Russia](/source/Russia) ([Primorye](/source/Primorye), [Amur Krai](/source/Amur_Krai), [Khabarovsk](/source/Khabarovsk)).[1][2]

*Lilium distichum* flourishes among shrubs and in forests. It grows from 2–4 ft (61–122 cm) tall. The stem is cylindrical and slender with a single whorl of leaves mid–way up the stem. It also has much smaller oval leaves sparsely, alternately on the upper stem.[2]

The flowers are yellow–orange or orange–vermillion with the petals spotted in purple, somewhat ‘flatfaced’ in appearance with irregular distribution of petals around the face of the flower forming a fanshape. The tips of the petals are reflexed. 2–10 flowers are carried on an [inflorescence](/source/Inflorescence) in July and August.[2][3][4][5]

The name *distichum* refers to the two types of leaves the plant carries.[6]

## References

1. [Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=279963)

1. [Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 138 东北百合 dong bei bai he *Lilium distichum* Nakai ex Kamibayashi, Chosen Yuri Dzukai. t. 7. 1915](http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=120&taxon_id=200027713)

1. Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.

1. Czerepanov, S.K. (1995). Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former USSR): 1-516. Cambridge University Press.

1. Denisov, N. (2008). Addition to Vascular flora of the Kozlov island (Peter the Great Gulf, Japanese sea). Turczaninowia 11(4): 29-42.

1. Guide to Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes, Hamlyn, London. 1992. ISBN 0-600-57545-4

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