Lilium Philadelphicum is also name: Red Lily, Western Wood Lily, Wild Lily, Wood Lily . The wood lily is native to eastern North America and the tall-grass prairies of central North America, extending to western British Columbia. In northern Ontario, its range extends north to James Bay and west to the Manitoba border, near the Lake of the Woods region. Lilium Philadelphicum is a tall erect perennial herb with stems up to 1.2 m tall, smooth (glabrous), with intense orange to red terminal flowers. The stems originate from a scaly bulb composed of several white fleshy segments clustered around the base of the stem. The starchy bulbs are edible (served boiled). The bulbs are also eaten and dispersed by small rodents. The Cree common name, "mouse root," refers to the fact that voles often store the fleshy bulbs in their burrows. The wood lily is the floral emblem of Saskatchewan. Beautiful plant to see in masses. A definite favorite of people and Hummingbirds alike. The leaves are simple, parallel-veined, sessile, glabrous, placed in 1?4 whorls of 3?11 leaves situated near the top of the stem, and with leaves of alternate or seemingly random attachment along the lower portions of the stem. The leaf blades are linear, narrowly elliptic, or ob-lanceolate, up to 10 cm long and up to 2.3 cm wide; tapering gradually to a blunt point at the apex; margins entire. Intense eye-catching orange blooms steal the show in June and July. The bell shape flowers are bisexual, 1?3, terminal, erect, large, and showy, and they grow on 2.5?10.5 cm long stalks (peduncles). The sepals and petals are alike so they are name tepals. The flowers have six, pale to bright orange or red, marked with reddish brown to black spots near the centre of the flower. The tepals are 5?8 cm long, 1.6?3 cm wide, narrowly elliptic to ob-lanceolate, tapering abruptly to the paler, clawed base; the nectar guides, located on the claws, are more well developed and tube?like on the sepals. The six stamens are erect and extending beyond the perianth, with 5?12 mm long maroon anthers, facing outward (extrorse);the pistil is 5?8 cm long, ovary superior, elongate, topped by a long style that ends in a prominent 3?lobed stigma. The dry capsule is oblong, 2.5?7 cm long, and splits open (dehisces) vertically through each of the 3 chambers (a loculicidal capsule); the seeds are flat. Hardiness zones: 3-8 (-37c/-35f, -10c/15f). The Philadelphicum grows in meadows, prairies, barrens, open woods, and roadsides, in areas with calcareous bedrock or sediments. This tree is highly recommended for home landscaping. It prefers cold winters with a good snow cover; it does not like to be in wet or exposed ground over winter. The most important thing is a very well drained soil.