Lilium superbum
( American Turkscap Lily )
L. superbum is a vigorous, stem-rooting true species lily with rhizomatous bulbs, purplish green stems, and linear to lance-shaped leaves, mostly borne in dense whorls.
Lilium superbum
Turk's-cap lily flowers have a green star at the center (not visible in the photo), which makes a good identifying mark for this plant.
Index- plants in this Family
Liliaceae / Lily Turk's-cap Lily (Lilium superbum)
Turk's-cap Lily is also known as Turkscap Lily and Turkscaplily, rarely as Swamp Lily. ...
Swamp Lily (Lilium Superbum) - One of the stateliest of N. American Lilies, bearing late in summer beautiful orange-red flowers, thickly spotted.
American Turk´s-Cap Lily [English]: Lilium superbum f. plenum
American Turk´s-Cap Lily [English]: Lilium superbum
American Turkscap Lily [English]: Lilium superbum
American Twinflower [English]: Linnaea borealis f. angustissima ...
By the early part of that century, native plants from the east coast, such as Lilium superbum, had been introduced into some gardens and four foreign lilies were being grown, including the ubiquitous L. martagon.
This tuberous perennial is not a true lily, despite its resemblance to the Turk's-cap lily (Lilium superbum). It climbs to 6 feet by tendrils at the ends of the leaves.
Lilium canadense (Liliaceae) - It is also possible that this is a "Turk's Cap Lily" (Lilium superbum). Canada lily is usually yellow, not orange, but these flower petals don't seem to re-curve as much as one might expect in a turk's cap lily...
 See also: Lilium, Lily, May, Orange, Green
  
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