Martagon lily
ലിലിയം മാർട്ടഗോൺ
Lilium martagon L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 30 cm
Liliaceae
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsRHS and Wikipedia list it as toxic to cats (25 Oct 2026)
PeopleNo safety information yet
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
- SW. & C. Europe to MongoliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 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 m
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS pink, purple; Wikipedia pink, purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- azucena, ajo del antojil, ajo del antosil
- Polish
- leluja, Lilia złotogłów
- German
- Türkenbund, Türkenbundlilie, Türkenbund-Lilie
- French
- Martagon, Lis martagon, Lys martagon
- Russian
- Саранка, Лилия кудреватая, Лилия лесная
- Chinese
- 头巾百合, 欧洲百合, 頭巾百合
- Arabic
- زنبق بنفسجي
- Asturian
- martagón
- Belarusian
- Cаранка, Лілея кучаравая, Царскія кучары
- Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
- Лілея кучаравая
- Bulgarian
- Петров кръст
- Bosnian
- Vrtoglav
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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
- 3D model: Lilium martagon (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.