Lilium hansonii, known as Hanson's lily and Japanese Turk's-cap lily,Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Scientific and Common Names of 7,000 Vascular Plants in the United States 1–294. is an East Asian species of plants in the lily family.Leichtlin, Maximilian 1871. Moore’s Rural New Yorker 24: 60Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 14(76): 245–246 description in Latin It is native to Korea, Japan, and to Jilin Province in northeastern China, as well as being widely cultivated as an ornamental., p. 613
Lilium hansonii is a vigorous early–flowering stem–rooting true lily. It has elliptic to inversely lanced–shaped leaves, pale green, up to 7 inches (18 cm) long and carried in whorls of 12–20 leaves. In early summer it produces racemes of up 10–14 small, nodding, fragrant, flowers with recurved tepals of a brilliant orange–yellow. The tepals are fleshy and show purplish–brown spots near the base. The plant grows to 3–5 feet (1–1.5 m) tall.
Lilium hansonii is named for Peter Hanson (1821–1887), a Danish–born American landscape artist who was an aficionado of tulips and also grew lilies.
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