| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liliaceae | Cardiocrinum | ||||
| Liliaceae | Cardiocrinum cordatum | Waif on ore piles. | Native of Japan. | ||
| Liliaceae | Clintonia | Clintonia | ![]() (c) Stuart, Will | ||
| Liliaceae | Clintonia borealis | Bluebead-lily, Yellow Clintonia | Spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, less commonly in red oak forests, cool rocky seepages. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to Manitoba, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and n. Indiana, and in the mountains to w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, and n. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988). | ![]() (c) Stuart, Will |
| Liliaceae | Clintonia umbellulata | Speckled Wood-lily, White Clintonia | Red oak and other oak forests, mesic to dry ridges and slopes, less commonly in northern hardwood forests, generally at lower elevations than C. borealis, though the two species can co-occur. | An Appalachian endemic: w. New York west to s. Ohio, south to n. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988). | ![]() (c) Krakowiak, Alaina - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium | Trout Lily, Fawn Lily, Dogtooth-violet | ![]() (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Liliaceae | Erythronium albidum | White Trout Lily, Blonde Lilian | Rich, mesic forests, over calcareous substrates or in very nutrient-rich alluvial soils. | S. Ontario west to Minnesota, south to n. Virginia, n. Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and ne. Texas. Reports from nw. Georgia are erroneous (M. Medley, 2019, pers. comm.). | ![]() (c) Parkins, Grant Morrow |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium americanum ssp. americanum | American Trout Lily | Moist bottomland or slope forests, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks. | New Brunswick west to Ontario and Minnesota, south to sc. North Carolina, c. Tennessee, n. Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Georgia records are apparently sight-records and lack specimens (R. Oliver, pers. comm.; 2024). | ![]() © Scott Ward |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium americanum ssp. harperi | Harper's Trout Lily | Moist forests. | Ne. Tennessee and nc. Tennessee south to extreme se. Tennessee, nw. Georgia, and nc. Alabama. | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium dens-canis | ||||
| Liliaceae | Erythronium mesochoreum | Prairie Trout-lily, Midland Fawn-lily | Prairies, dry woodlands. | S. Indiana, n. Illinois, Iowa, and e. Nebraska south to se. Missouri, c. Arkansas, and e. Texas. | ![]() (c) Aaron, Nathan - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium rostratum | Beaked Trout Lily | Moist bottomland or slope forests. | C. Tennessee, Missouri, and se. Kansas, south to c. Alabama, wc. Louisiana, se. Oklahoma, and ne. Texas. | ![]() (c) Ogle, Jennifer - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium umbilicatum ssp. monostolum | Southern Appalachian Trout Lily | High elevation coves, slopes, and grassy balds, moist forests. | Ssp. monostolum is endemic to the high mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and n. Georgia; it approaches the Virginia border and should be sought, especially in the Grayson Highlands area. A puzzling population in n. Alabama may represent this taxon. There are apparently collections from n. Georgia (L. Chafin 217; 224; 244) representing this taxon (R. Oliver, pers. comm.; 2024). | ![]() (c) Finzel, Brian - CC-BY-SA |
| Liliaceae | Erythronium umbilicatum ssp. umbilicatum | Dimpled Trout Lily | Moist bottomland or slope forests, or in rather dry upland habitats. | Virginia and e. West Virginia south through North Carolina, South Carolina, and e. Tennessee to c. Georgia, e. Alabama, and Panhandle Florida. | ![]() (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Liliaceae | Liliaceae | Lily Family | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Liliaceae | Lilium | Lily | ![]() (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Liliaceae | Lilium ×pseudograyi | Bogs and seepages. | W. Virginia and w. North Carolina. | ![]() © Chris Ulrey | |
| Liliaceae | Lilium canadense | Canada Lily | Wet meadows, clearings, coves, seepages. | New Brunswick west to s. Ontario, south to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. | ![]() (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Liliaceae | Lilium candidum | ||||
| Liliaceae | Lilium catesbyi | Pine Lily, Catesby's Lily, Leopard Lily | Pine savannas, sandhill seeps. | Se. North Carolina south to s. Florida and west to e. Louisiana, on the Coastal Plain. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Liliaceae | Lilium formosanum | Formosa Lily | Roadsides. | Native of e. Asia. | |
| Liliaceae | Lilium grayi | Gray's Lily, Roan Lily | Bogs, seepages, grassy balds, moist forests, and wet meadows, at medium to high elevations. | A Southern Appalachian endemic: sw. Virginia, nw. North Carolina, and ne. Tennessee. | ![]() (c) Stuart, Will |
| Liliaceae | Lilium iridollae | Panhandle Lily, Pot-o’-gold Lily | Bogs, acidic organic soils along small blackwater streams and drains. | Panhandle Florida west to s. Alabama and s. Mississippi. | ![]() (c) Griffith, Floyd A. |
| Liliaceae | Lilium lancifolium | Tiger Lily | Roadsides, old homesites, disturbed areas, trash heaps. | Native of Asia. Reported for La Flore County, Oklahoma (Serviss, Campbell, & Fuller (2024). | ![]() (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Lilium longiflorum | Easter Lily, November Lily | Fields and other disturbed areas, persistent and rarely spreading from cultivation. | Native of e. Asia (s. Japan and Ryukyu Islands). | ![]() (c) Lindqvist, Annika - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Lilium michauxii | Carolina Lily, Michaux’s Lily | Dry upland forests, ridges, slopes, and ridges. | S. Virginia, e. Tennessee, n. Alabama, c. Mississippi, and e. Louisiana south to s. South Carolina, Panhandle Florida, s. Alabama, s. Mississippi, s. Louisiana, and e. Texas. | ![]() (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Liliaceae | Lilium michiganense | Michigan Lily | Wet prairies and calcareous hardwood flatwoods. | Ontario and Minnesota south to e. Tennessee, Kentucky, nw. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and e. Oklahoma. | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philadelphicum var. andinum | Western Wood Lily | Prairies and woodlands. | Var. andinum is more western, ranging from Québec, Ohio, Minnesota, and British Columbia south to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, w. Texas, and New Mexico. | ![]() (c) Graeff, Alex - CC-BY-NC-ND, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philadelphicum var. philadelphicum | Eastern Wood Lily, Appalachian Wood Lily | Grassy balds, moist to wet meadows (especially in thin soils over rock), open woodlands, limestone barrens. | The species ranges from Maine west to British Columbia, south to North Carolina, nw. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988), Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Mexico. Var. philadelphicum is eastern and mainly Appalachian, ranging from Maine and s. Ontario south to North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky. | ![]() (c) Gibson, Andrew Lane - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Lilium philippinense | Philippine Lily | Roadsides, disturbed areas, escaped from cultivation. | Native of the Philippines. This species is introduced at various locations in the Southeast, including Florida and Louisiana (Kartesz 1999), and has been documented from Richmond Co. North Carolina (B.A. Sorrie, pers. comm.). | ![]() (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Lilium pyrophilum | Sandhill Bog Lily, Fire Lily | Peaty sandhill seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, streamhead canebrakes. | Fall-line Sandhills region of North Carolina, South Carolina, and e. Georgia. Material from ne. North Carolina and se. Virginia is controversial as to identity (W. Wall, pers. comm., 2016). Newly discovered material in Georgia appears to be L. pyrophilum. | ![]() (c) Stuart, Will |
| Liliaceae | Lilium regale | Royal Lily | Native of e. Asia. | ![]() (c) Wang.QG - CC-BY | |
| Liliaceae | Lilium superbum | Turk's-cap Lily, Lily-royal, Superb Lily | Cove forests and moist forests, moist ravines, blackwater stream swamps, Coastal Plain bogs. | Massachusetts and s. New York south to ne. North Carolina, Panhandle Florida, and c. Mississippi, southward primarily in the Appalachians, but extending across the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain of Virginia and ne. North Carolina, and with a similarly odd extension south of the southern terminus of the Appalachians into the Coastal Plain of Georgia, w. Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. | ![]() (c) Newlon, Michael - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Medeola | Indian Cucumber-root | ![]() (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | ||
| Liliaceae | Medeola virginiana | Indian Cucumber-root | Moist forests, usually with acidic soils. | Québec and Ontario west to Minnesota, south to Georgia, Panhandle Florida, and Louisiana. | ![]() (c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Liliaceae | Prosartes | Fairybells, Mandarin | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Liliaceae | Prosartes lanuginosa | Yellow Mandarin, Yellow Fairybells | Deciduous forests, especially coves. | Primarily an Appalachian species: New York and s. Ontario south to n. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988) and Alabama; disjunct in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas. | ![]() (c) Shaw, Joey |
| Liliaceae | Prosartes maculata | Spotted Mandarin, Nodding Mandarin | Nutrient-rich deciduous forests, especially cove forests. | S. West Virginia and s. Ohio south to sw. North Carolina, n. Georgia, ne. Alabama; disjunct in se. Michigan. | ![]() (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Liliaceae | Streptopus | Twisted-stalk | ![]() (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Liliaceae | Streptopus amplexifolius | White Mandarin, Pagoda-bells | Moist forests and seepages at high elevations. | The species is circumboreal, the range fragmented. | ![]() (c) Longhurst, Penny |
| Liliaceae | Streptopus lanceolatus var. lanceolatus | Eastern Rose Mandarin, Eastern Twisted-stalk, Rosybells, Scootberry, Liverberry, Rose-Bellwort | Moist forests at high elevations, especially spruce-fir and northern hardwoods forests. | S. Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to Michigan, south to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and in the mountains to w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, and ne. Georgia. | ![]() (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Liliaceae | Tricyrtis | Toad Lily | ![]() (c) Conboy, Andrew - CC-BY | ||
| Liliaceae | Tricyrtis hirta | Toad Lily | Disturbed areas, persistent or weakly spread from horticultural use. | Native of e. Asia. | ![]() (c) Conboy, Andrew - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Tulipa | Tulip | ![]() (c) Hallock, Robert M - CC-BY | ||
| Liliaceae | Tulipa clusiana | ||||
| Liliaceae | Tulipa gesneriana | Didier's Tulip | Disturbed areas. | Native of w. Turkey. | ![]() (c) Conboy, Andrew - CC-BY |
| Liliaceae | Tulipa sylvestris | Tulip, Dutch-lily | Very commonly cultivated, occasionally persistent or weakly naturalized. | Native of w. Asia. "Occasionally naturalized in moist meadows, fields and roadsides" in se. Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Block 2007) and Maryland (Kartesz 1999). | ![]() (c) saari, cassi - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |





































