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Lilium bosniacum

Lilium bosniacum
Photo: Muscari at de.wikipedia, GFDL

Lilium bosniacum is a bulbous lily native to the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Dinaric Alps, grown as a garden or rock-garden plant for its nodding, fragrant yellow to orange Turk's cap flowers. Treat it like other hardy temperate lilies: plant the bulb in well-drained soil in a cool, partly shaded spot.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during growth and keep soil from drying out, but avoid waterlogging the bulb.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich soil, slightly acidic to neutral; a gritty mix suits rock gardens.
Temperature
Hardy to around -20 °C; comfortable in cool temperate summers.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Balkan Pen. (C. Dinaric Alps)
Climate
temperate

About

Lilium bosniacum is a lily native to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also known as zlatni ljiljan (Bosnian for golden lily) and Bosanski ljiljan (Bosnian lily).

L. bosniacum has often been lumped and split and lumped again. Some results of molecular studies support it as an infraspecific taxon of Lilium carniolicum. Lilium bosniacum, together with Lilium albanicum and Lilium jankae have been treated as varieties of Lilium carniolicum.

Other Lilium plants

Albanian Lily · Lovable lily · Lilium arboricola · Gold Rayed Lily · Baker's Lily · Bolander's lily · Lilium brownii var. viridulum · Chinese Lily · Orange lily · Canada lily · Madonna lily · Lilium carniolicum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lilium bosniacum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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