Lilium hansonii

{{Short description|Species of lily}}

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|name = Hanson's lily

|image = Hanson's Lily Lilium hansonii Flowers 1842px.jpg

|genus = Lilium

|species = hansonii

|authority = Leichtlin ex D.D.T.Moore{{citation |title=Lilium hansonii|work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=279909 |access-date=2017-06-05}}

|synonyms_ref = [http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Lilium+hansonii&commonname= Tropicos search for Lilium hansonii]

|synonyms = *Lilium hansonii Leichtlin ex Baker

}}

Lilium hansonii, known as Hanson's lily{{Cite web|url=https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/hansons-lily/|title=Hanson's Lily|website=Ark of Taste|publisher=Slow Food Foundation|access-date=5 June 2017}} 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: 60[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/238014#page/252/mode/1up Journal 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.{{Citation |year=1996 |editor-last=Brickell |editor-first=Christopher |title=RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants |publication-place=London |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |isbn=978-0-7513-0436-7 }}, 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.{{Citation |last=Coombes |first=Allen J. |year=1992 |title=The Hamlyn Guide to Plant Names |publication-place=London |publisher=Hamlyn |isbn=978-0-600-57545-0 }}{{Citation |title=Peter Hanson, the artist|work=New York Times |date=23 February 1887 |access-date=21 July 2011 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/02/23/104008550.pdf }}