Lilium wallichianum is an Asian species of bulbous plants in the lily family native to the Indian subcontinent and to Myanmar. It is native to India, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesHara, H., Stearn, W.T. & Williams, H.J. (1978). An Enumeration of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 1: 1-154. Trustees of British Museum, London.Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.Noltie, H.J. (1994). Flora of Bhutan 3(1): 1-456. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590.Singh, N.P. & Sanjappa, M. (eds.) (2006). Alliaceae, Liliaceae, Trilliaceae & Uvulariaceae. Fascicles of Flora of India 23: 1-134. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi.
Lilium wallichianum grows on slopes and grasslands at , and in moist shade elevation. The bulbs are stoloniferous, with new bulbs capable of appearing some distance from the parent plant. The green stem tinged with purple grows up to high. The leaves are scattered, dark green, linear to lanceolate and up to long. Each stem bears up to four trumpet-shaped flowers, white to creamy-yellow, held horizontally and up to across.Christopher Brickell, The RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Dorling Kindersly, London, 1996, p617. A fairly difficult species to grow successfully in the garden, it requires a moist slightly acidic soil with excellent drainage. The species prefers light dappled shade and blooms very late in the season.
The species was named for Dr. Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish plant hunter, botanist and physician.
Varieties Lilium wallichianum var. neilgherrense (Wight) H.Hara - Nepal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India Lilium wallichianum var. wallichianum - Himalayas
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