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June 30, 2010
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Southeastern, New Hampshire
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This plant shows quite a bit of variation. The first plant I saw had 6 big flowers
at the top and whorls of 8-10 leaves going up the stem. But most of the Canada
Lilies along the trail had whorls of 4 leaves and only 1 flower at the top (see
bottom two rows of pictures to the right and below). I thought it might be two different
plants, but according to the guidebooks, it just shows quite a bit of variation.
The leaves are lanceolate and appear in whorls of 4-10 leaves on the stem. The veins
beneath the leaves have minute prickles. The large yellow flowers have 3 petals and 3
petal-like sepals (making it seem like it has 6 petals). There are dark redish-brown
spots on the flower petals. There are six stamen with brown anthers. Up to 20 flowers
may be borne on the same plant
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