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The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. [2] They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity.
Lily usually refers to herbaceous plants of the genus Lilium, with large showy trumpet-shaped flowers. Many species are cultivated as ornamentals. Many species are cultivated as ornamentals. Many other plants not closely related to lilies are called lilies, usually because their flowers resemble lilies.
The List of Liliaceae genera has been much reduced by modern molecular phylogenetic based taxonomy.The current taxonomy of Liliaceae treats the family Liliaceae as having three subfamilies, with the Liliodeae being further subdivided into two tribes, the Medeoleae and Lilieae.
The lily family, Liliaceae, are the largest Liliales family, with 15 genera and about 700 species, though much reduced from earlier circumscriptions, in four subfamilies. Of these genera, Gagea is the largest (204 spp.), but some are quite small, with Medeola being monotypic. They are perennial herbaceous plants, growing from bulbs or corms ...
Lilywort - A plant of the genus Funkia. Day lily. Also, any plant of the genus Liliaceae. Liverwort - Any species of Marchantiophyta, a division of non-vascular plants (a type of bryophyte). Also, plants that resemble the liverworts; as, liverleaf . Lousewort - Pedicularis canadensis. Cockscomb; head betony; wood betony (herb Christopher).
Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae. [2] [3] [4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip or ...
Clintonia is a genus of flowering plants in the lily family Liliaceae.Plants of the genus are distributed across the temperate regions of North America and eastern Asia, [1] [2] in the mesic understory of deciduous or coniferous forests. [3]
The Lilioideae are a subfamily of monocotyledonous perennial, herbaceous mainly bulbous flowering plants in the lily family, Liliaceae. They are found predominantly in the temperate and colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly East Asia and North America. The subfamily includes two tribes.