Lilium michiganenseFarw.

Michigan lily

WFO wfo-0000678723 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lilium michiganense, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-26 / obs. 191176530
Lilium michiganense, photographed by natepow
fig. b natepow, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143204772
Lilium michiganense, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. c Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142200977
Lilium michiganense, photographed by zancat
fig. d zancat, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145912072
Lilium michiganense, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. e Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142053847
Lilium michiganense, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. f Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144935199
Lilium michiganense, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. g Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167016516
Lilium michiganense, photographed by Kalvin Chan
fig. h Kalvin Chan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142242237

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,313 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,313 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lilium canadense f. uniflorum (Farw.) B.Boivin & Cody
  • Lilium canadense subsp. michiganense (Farw.) B.Boivin & Cody
  • Lilium canadense var. umbelliferum (Farw.) B.Boivin
  • Lilium michiganense f. umbelliferum (Farw.) Wherry
  • Lilium michiganense f. uniflorum (Farw.) Wherry
  • Lilium michiganense var. umbelliferum Farw.
  • Lilium michiganense var. uniflorum Farw.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.