Lilies are now dotting the Chattanooga landscape in beautiful colors: rich yellows, bright oranges and glowing whites.
The flowers come in a variety of forms including trumpet, bowl and funnel shapes, said Tom Stebbins, University of Tennessee Extension agent.
“There are hundreds of species of garden lilies,” Stebbins said, noting that Asiatic, trumpet/Aurelian, Easter and Orientals are the most popular in the Chattanooga area.
“Many plants have ‘lily’ in their common name but are not true lilies,” Stebbins said, explaining that daylilies, water lilies and calla lilies are not lilies in the botanical classification.
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