Botanical Name: Belamcanda chinensis
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Common Name: Blackberry Lily  
Plant photo of: Belamcanda chinensis
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Perennial, Annual

 

Height Range

1-3'

 

Flower Color

Orange, Red

 

Flower Season

Summer

 

Leaf Color

Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: JJ Neilson Arboretum
  • Description

  • Notes

Blackberry lily (also commonly called leopard lily) is an erect, rhizomatous perennial which typically grows 2 to 3 feet tall, and a foot or two wide. Lily-like, deep orange flowers, heavily spotted with red dots, appear in early to-mid summer in sprays above the foliage on wiry, naked stems. Sword-shaped, iris-like, medium green leaves are in flattened fans. Flowers give way to pear-shaped seed pods which split open when ripe (late summer), with each pod revealing a blackberry-like seed cluster, hence the common name of blackberry lily. Spotting on the flowers gives rise to the additional common name of leopard lily. Also listed as Iris domestica.