Lilium pyrophilum M.W. Skinner & Sorrie. Sandhill Bog Lily, Fire Lily. Phen: Late Jul-mid Aug. Hab: Peaty sandhill seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, streamhead canebrakes. Dist: Fall-line Sandhills region of NC, SC, and e. GA. Material from ne. NC and se. VA is questionable and probably better considered as Lilium superbum (W. Wall, pers. comm., 2016). Newly discovered material in GA appears to be L. pyrophilum.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Syn: = FNA26, K4, Va, Skinner & Sorrie (2002); = n/a – C, F; < Lilium iridollae M.G.Henry – K1, misapplied; < Lilium michauxii Poir. – RAB, (misapplied to these plants)
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