Pine Lily

Lilium catesbaei
Español: Teja
In the natural environment, this species benefits from periodic fire. Very difficult to see except when in bloom.



Retain if present. Could be grown as a small specimen plant in a wildflower garden.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Considertions

Rarely grown as difficult to find seeds or bulbs and seedlings are subject to fungal diseases.

Habitat

Mesic flatwoods, wet prairie, wet flatwoods, open seepage areas such as cutthroat seeps.

Did You Know?

  • Showy flowers
  • Attracts butterflies including swallowtails. Reported possible pollinators include spicebush swallowwtail, cloudless sulfur (Phoebis sennae), Palamedes, eastern black swallowtail, and Florida dust skipper and green lynx spider (Coastal Plain Plants Wiki).