Lily family : LILIACEAE (LILIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Alstroemeria pelegrina Peruvian Lily Sydney, August 2006	Alstroemeria psittacina 'Variegata' White Edged Princess Lily Wyee, April 2007	Alstroemeria pulchella Parrot Lily Sydney, November 2006	Arthropodium milleflorum Pale Vanilla Lily Wyee, March 2007
Burchardia umbellata Milkmaids Chiltern, February 2007 (Photo: courtesy of Eileen Collins)	Caesia parviflora Pale Grass Lily Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens	Galtonia candicans Cape Hyacinth Wyee, January 2007	Gloriosa superba Glory Lily Sydney, December 2006
Hyacinthoides non-scripta Bluebell Sydney, September 2006	Hyacinthus orientalis Hyacinth Sydney, August 2006	Lilium Lily Sydney, August 2006	Liriope muscari Border Grass Wyee, February 2007
Liriope muscari 'Gold Bands' Variegated Lilyturf Wyee, February 2007	Liriope muscari 'Royal Purple' Royal Purple Border Grass Wyee, February 2007	Ornithogalum arabicum Star of Bethlehem Sydney, October 2006	Phormium tenax New Zealand Flax Sydney, October 2006

Thysanotus tuberosus Fringed Lily Wyee, December 2007

Tulipa gesneriana Tulip Sydney, August 2006

Plants in LILIACEAE are attacked by a many polyphagus caterpillars of Butterflies and Moths in Australia, including:

Cryptoptila immersana

Ectropis bhurmitra

Apina callisto

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 19 February 2013, 8 December 2015, 16 May 2020)