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Lilium pyrophilum M.W.Skinner & Sorrie

Sandhills lily

Liliaceae · North Carolina, South Carolina +1 · listed by its family as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Lilium pyrophilum, the sandhills lily or sandhills bog lily, is a North American species of plant in the lily family. It is endemic to the Sandhills region of southern Virginia, North Carolina and northern South Carolina, in the eastern United States.

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

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 ›

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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: 68 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 68 of the 68 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.
NativeNorth Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia · 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 marker35.238, -79.572 · in the densest population, 53 records (78% 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 68 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 20 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 68 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 68 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: (c) Anne Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

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

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Liliaceae
Described by
M.W.Skinner & Sorrie
Native to
North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
Wild records
68 in range · 25 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 2026-10-2268 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Lilium pyrophilum M.W.Skinner & Sorrie (the item's: IPNI 20005484-1, POWO 323165-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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