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Lilium leucanthum (Baker) Baker

Chinese white lily

Liliaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central · listed by its family as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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About the genus · Lilium

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. Most species are native to the Northern Hemisphere and their range is temperate climates and extends into the subtropics. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lilium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the family Liliaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the family Liliaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 50 of the 52 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker30.6, 109.72 · in the densest population, 20 records (38% of those in range)
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 52 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 16 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 14 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 50 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 52 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Christian Hummert (Ixitixel), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5); Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Lilium 83 in the reference

Lilium akkusianum Lilium akkusianum Liliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ernst GügelLilium albanicum Lilium albanicum Albanian Lily Photo: CC BY, SokratisLilium amabile Lilium amabile Korean lily Photo: CC0, Étienne Lacroix-CarignanLilium apertum Lilium apertum Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Wang.QGLilium auratum Lilium auratum Gold-band lily Photo: CC BY, 村山史世　（Fumiyo MURAYAMA)Lilium bakerianum Lilium bakerianum Baker's lily Photo: CC BY, Jiao Sun (孙娇)Lilium bolanderi Lilium bolanderi Bolander's lily Photo: CC BY, Parker James LloydLilium brownii Lilium brownii Brown's lily Photo: CC BY, Emilie PLilium bulbiferum Lilium bulbiferum Orange lily Photo: CC BY, Thomas GalewskiLilium callosum Lilium callosum Slim-stem lily Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinLilium canadense Lilium canadense Canada lily Photo: CC BY, Forest Botial-JarvisLilium candidum Lilium candidum Madonna lily Photo: CC BY, yelena_antipova all 84 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Lilium brownii var. leucanthum; Lilium leucanthum var. leiostylum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Liliaceae
Described by
(Baker) Baker
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central
Wild records
52 in range · 16 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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