turk's-cap

We have lilies of the valley, and their cousins the Solomon's seals, a small flowered turk's-cap, of pale primrose colour, with an endless variety of small flowers of the lily tribe, remarkable for beauty of foliage or delicacy of form.

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

Here in the southern mountains this genus is comprised of five quite distinctive species: turk's-cap lily (Lilium superbum), Canada lily (L. canadense), wood lily (L. philadelphicum),

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Of these, only the turk's-cap and Michaux's lilies are, in my experience, commonly encountered.

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