Lilium Superbum or Turk?s - cap lily is also known as Turkscap Lily and Turkscaplily, rarely as Swamp Lily. Turk's cap lily belongs to the Liliaceae family and is native to eastern North America from New Hampshire south to Georgia and Alabama. This is a plant that will make the most jaded gardener stop dead in their tracks. Candelabras of orange trumpets so tall you look up into the flowers. They are simply stunning! This is an herbaceous plant; it is a perennial which can reach a height of 10 ft (3 m). The stem is stiff and straight. Lilium Superbum blooms the earliest, is the largest, and has the most numerous and largest flowers. The leaves are lanceolate and they can reach 7 in (18 cm) in length and be as wide as 1 in (3 cm). They are arranged in whorls around the stems with three to twenty leaves per whorl. The upper leaves or bracts may be alternate. Turk's cap-type flowers are 2.5-4 in (5-8 cm) wide, orange and yellow with darker spots sometimes reddish and white. All the flowers have a green star in the center of the flower witch is an identifying feature of the plant. The sepals and petals are almost identical, 3.5 in (9 cm) long and sharply flexed and curved backward to touch at the stem thus forming a "Turk's cap". There may be from one to as many as forty or more "nodding" flowers (tending to face down) in loose inflorescence atop upright stems. The plant usually flaunts its unique flowers from July to September. Lilium Superbum Turk's cap lily is pollinated primarily by butterflies and fritillaries. Hardiness zones: 3 - 9. (-37c/-35f, -5c/25f) Lilium Superbum Turk's cap lily is easily grown in average, medium wet to wet, well-drained soils in full sun to partial sun and does best in consistently moist, rich in humus soils. Mulch helps prevent soils drying out and keep the root zone cool. The plant can be found growing wild in openings in rich woods, swamp edges and bottoms, stream sides, moist meadows and thickets. Turk's cap lily often spreads to form impressive colonies in the wild but may be slow to spread in cultivation if given less than optimum growing conditions. Lilium Superbum Turk's Cap Lily is best in groups or masses and can be used for borders in native plant gardens, meadows, or cottage gardens and is a good plant for moist low spots and pond edges.