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Lilium pardalinum, sometimes known as the Panther or Leopard lily, is a native of damp areas in the coastal ranges of California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Typically it grows to about two meters high, the tallest and most vigorous plants can reach up to 2.5 meters. The flowers are Turk's-cap shaped, red-orange, with numerous brown spots, usually flowering in July. The bulb
Bulb

A bulb is an underground vertical shoot that has modified leaf that are used as food storage organs by a dormancy plant.A bulb's leaf bases generally do not support leaves, but contain food reserves to enable the plant to survive adverse conditions....
s are small, and many are usually clustered together on a rhizomatous
Rhizome

In botany, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal plant stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes....
 stock.

There are at least five subspecies:






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Lilium pardalinum, sometimes known as the Panther or Leopard lily, is a native of damp areas in the coastal ranges of California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Typically it grows to about two meters high, the tallest and most vigorous plants can reach up to 2.5 meters. The flowers are Turk's-cap shaped, red-orange, with numerous brown spots, usually flowering in July. The bulb
Bulb

A bulb is an underground vertical shoot that has modified leaf that are used as food storage organs by a dormancy plant.A bulb's leaf bases generally do not support leaves, but contain food reserves to enable the plant to survive adverse conditions....
s are small, and many are usually clustered together on a rhizomatous
Rhizome

In botany, a rhizome is a characteristically horizontal plant stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes....
 stock.

There are at least five subspecies:
  • Lilium pardalinum ssp. pardalinum Kellogg -- leopard lily
  • Lilium pardalinum ssp. pitkinense (Beane & Vollmer) Skinner, comb. nov. ined. -- Pitkin Marsh lily
  • Lilium pardalinum ssp. shastense (Eastw.) Skinner -- Shasta lily
  • Lilium pardalinum ssp. vollmeri (Eastw.) Skinner -- Vollmer's lily
  • Lilium pardalinum ssp. wigginsii (Beane & Vollmer) Skinner, comb. nov. ined. -- Wiggins' lily


The subspecies Pitkin Marsh lily, Lilium pardalinum ssp Pitkinese is endangered.