Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to northwestern Montana.
Habitat: Prairies, forest edge, forest openings, and meadows from sea level to to the subalpine.
Flowers: May-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, moths, hummingbirds
Herbaceous, glabrous perennial from a large, ovoid bulb, the sturdy, unbranched stem 6-12 dm. tall.
Leaves from whorled to nearly all scattered, lanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4-10 cm. long and up to 3 cm. broad.
Flowers 2-20 in a leafy-bracteate raceme on slightly recurved pedicels; tepals 6, 4-6 cm. long and 8-12 mm broad, yellow-orange to reddish-orange, freely spotted with purple or deep red, strongly recurved; filaments 6, slender, long-exerted, slightly exceeding the style.
Capsule cylindric, 3-4 cm. long.
Publication: J. Soc. Centr. Hort. France, sér. 2. 5: 98. 1871.
Lilium lucidum Kellogg
Lilium parviflorum (Hook.) W.G.Sm.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Lilium columbianum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Lilium columbianum checklist entry
OregonFlora: Lilium columbianum information
E-Flora BC: Lilium columbianum atlas page
CalPhotos: Lilium columbianum photos
