Field, Wild, Meadow, Yellow or Canada Lily 
(Lilium canaclense) is one of the most abundant of the 
genus. Imagine a rich meadow, surrounded by deep 
green woods and covered with thousands of these lilies, 
their heads hanging and nodding invitingly and seeming 
fairly to tinkle in the bright sunlight. On the whole, 
this flower may be regarded as more graceful in form 
than is the Turk’s-cap, but it cannot compare with the 
latter flower for beauty of coloring. The regular whorled 
leaves and graceful bending peduncles supporting the 
hanging “ bells ” make a conventional design that often 
appeals to the artistic eye. 
The flowers are in terminal clusters of one to twelve 
blossoms, nodding on long peduncles from the summit 
of tall leafy stems. The leaves are lanceolate, arranged 
about the stem at intervals in whorls of three to eight. 
Flowers during June and July in moist meadows, from 
Quebec to Minn, and southwards to Ga. and Mo. 
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