Madonna lily
Lilium candidum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 30 cm
Liliaceae
Also called White lily
Formerly Lilium album, Lilium peregrinum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. North Macedonia to SW. Türkiye, Lebanon to IsraelKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Azucena blanca, Casablanca
- Hebrew
- שושן צחור
- Czech
- lilie bělostná
- Norwegian Bokmål
- madonnalilje
- Russian
- Лилия белоснежная
- German
- Weiße Lilie, Madonnenlilie, Madonnen-Lilie
- Japanese
- マドンナリリー
- French
- Lys blanc, Lis blanc
- Swedish
- madonnalilja, Madonnalilja
- Danish
- Madonna-lilje
- Chinese
- 聖母百合, 圣母百合, 马东百合
- Chinese (China)
- 圣母百合
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lilium candidum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.