''Lilium catesbaei'', sometimes known as Catesby's lily, pine lily, leopard lily, tiger lily, or southern-red lily is a native of

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and the coastal regions of the

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, where it usually grows in damp areas from

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. ''Lilium catesbaei'' requires hot, wet, acidic soil inhospitable to most other lily species. Producing a single flower, it generally blooms late in the year. The flower is upright with 6

tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of ve ...

(petals and sepals that look very similar). The tepals are curved backward and are orange toward the tip, yellow and purple-spotted toward the base.Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 179 Pine lily, ''Lilium catesbaei'' Walter, Fl. Carol. 123. 1788.
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catesbaei Plants described in 1788 Flora of the Southeastern United States Taxa named by Thomas Walter (botanist) Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Liliales-stub

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