Flowers like lilies, only small

Many amateur gardeners prefer to grow stately flowers such as lilies on their plots. Breeders and botanists are engaged in crossing and breeding more and more new varieties. But besides this magnificent plant, there are others that resemble a lily in their appearance. This article discusses alternatives to lilies.

Lily-like plants, only small

There are plants whose buds are very similar to lily flowers, but their size is much smaller.

Erythronium (kandyk)

The perennial kandyk is a herbaceous plant that shoots out of a bulb. Its height reaches about 40 cm, and its appearance is 2 opposite leaves growing at the base and one single shoot, at the end of which a flower bud is formed.

Flowers that look like lilies

Description

In erythronium, flowers are formed, similar to small lilies. They are drooping and have 6 petals, which form a bell-shaped bowl at the base, and at the edges diverge to the sides and bend back.

The colors can fluctuate and are most often pink, yellow or white. It is the various colors of this plant that make it possible to form a fairly colorful flower bed when grown outdoors.

Note! In the middle of summer, the stem and leaves die off. Therefore, when forming a flower bed, it is necessary to take this feature into account and combine them with other types of plants.

Goose bow

It also belongs to the lily family. His homeland is Africa. Continuous work on plant breeding has made it possible to breed more than 100 subspecies.

What does a goose bow look like?

The appearance of the plant is stunted. Its leaves are slightly elongated and the stem is short. The total number of flowers that can form from one tuber reaches 10 pieces. They are distinguished by their small size and very delicate petals of a bright yellow color, for which they are popularly called "lemon snowdrop".

The height of a goose onion can fluctuate as little as 3 cm to 30 cm, depending on the growing conditions created. Therefore, it is good to use it in flower beds as a covering plant.

Goose bow

Ixiolyrion

Little flowers like lilies blue, which the Ixiolyirion Tatar plant produces, can be rarely found in personal plots. But the plant is so unpretentious that even with minimal care it will please with flowering for almost 1 month.

How ixiolirion blooms

The plant produces a straight stem to a height of up to 0.5 m.If growing conditions are unsatisfactory, the height will be only 20-30 cm.At the end of the stem, small inflorescences are formed, combining from 2 to 10 flowers, each of which can reach 5 in diameter centimeters.

The petals can be of different shades of blue - from lavender to piercing blue.

Hesperokallis

This plant is better known as the desert lily. His homeland is the southern tip of North America.

Hesperokallis

Why does hesperocalis look like a lily?

The plant has a fairly thick stem with small and sparsely spaced narrow and long leaves. At the top, buds are formed, which gradually bloom into large flowers up to 8 cm in diameter.

The color of the petals can range from snow-white with a silvery sheen to greenish tones.

Hesperokallis works best on loose soils that intensively allow moisture to pass through.

They need to be watered only in the spring months, while in the summer it needs to be minimized. And only when the flower is ready to release a bud, it is necessary to water the "lily of the desert", after which it will bloom profusely.

Flowers like lilies on a thick stem

What are the names of flowers that look like chamomile

There are quite large plants, sometimes reaching gigantic sizes, which form a flower that looks like a lily.

Cardiocrinum, or giant lily

Cardiocrinum is a tall lily, which in some cases can reach a height of up to 4 meters. Its homeland is Asia and the eastern part of Russia. Depending on the variety, the flower height can range from 1.5 to 4 m.

Cardiocrinum

Description of tree lily

Flowers form at the top of a long stem that is quite thick. In some cases, it resembles a trunk, since its diameter can reach 6 cm.

The flowers are white bells of a very elongated shape (they can be up to 20 cm in length). With the formation of favorable conditions, the number of lilies on the stem can be 80 pieces.

Advice! Thanks to its spectacular appearance and large flowers, Cardiocrinum creates a good base for other plants that are stunted in comparison.

Amaryllis

Flowers similar to lilies are also observed in amaryllis. This perennial species is used for growing as a houseplant. Although in suitable natural conditions, it grows in open areas.

Amaryllis

Description of amaryllis

This bulbous plant is very impressive during flowering. This is due to the fact that at the end of the stem it forms single-row flowers up to 10 cm in diameter. On one stem, there can be from 4 to 12 pieces. And one plant simultaneously produces up to 3 stems.

The color of amaryllis petals can range from white to orange.

Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum and amaryllis are related, which is why their appearance is so similar. But still, each plant has its own distinctive features.

Description of the "home lily"

So hippeastrum is also popularly called "home lily". This is due to the fact that the flower of a plant can reach a diameter of up to 25 cm. Moreover, it is not flat, but slightly elongated, forming a bell-shaped bowl.

Note!The colors of the hippeastrum petals can have a wide variety of shades - white, yellow, pink, coral, cherry, and so on. Moreover, sometimes flowers do not have a single color, but combine several colors at once.

White flowers that look like lilies

Lilies - planting and care in the open field

There are large and small lilies and plants similar to them. Sometimes specialists in the cultivation and cultivation of flowers distinguish a separate group - those flowers that have white petals. They are distinguished by their special elegance and tenderness, for which they are deeply loved by decorators and landscape designers.

Eucharis

To date, the eucharis plant has more than 20 subspecies. Most of them grow in the Colombian Andes and the western part of the Amazon River.

Eucharis

Four types of eucharises and their description

In their appearance, eucharis flowers most resemble garden daffodils. But their distinctive feature is that their color in natural conditions can be not only white and yellow, but also green.

The plant, when provided with the appropriate conditions, forms a fairly powerful bush with lanceolate wide leaves, which are supported by a thick petiole.

The arrow, on which the buds form on top, reaches a height of 80 cm.
At the top, an umbrella-shaped inflorescence is formed, which can combine up to 10 flowers. Each of them can grow up to 12 cm in diameter.

Thanks to selection, it was possible to achieve a more varied color of eucharis flowers.

So, for example, among the most popular are such varieties as Large-flowered, Amazonian, White, Sandera

Alstomeria white

Alstroemeria or alstroemeria can be of a wide variety of colors, including a kind of leopard spot.

If we talk about the petals of plants that are most neutral in color, then white alstroemeria is represented by the White Wings variety, which translates as "white wings". Large leaves are inherent in it, and the height of the shoot released reaches 2 m.

Common species and flowers of white alstroemeria

Also among the white species of alstroemeria, varieties such as Virginia can be noted - there are brown markings on the top two petals.

The Garda variety is drought tolerant and produces a powerful stem that can grow up to 2 m in height. Its snow-white flowers are quite spectacular.

Alstomeria white

Zephyranthes

Zephyranthes is a very cute and delicate flower that is grown outdoors under appropriate conditions. But also as a house plant - it is great.

Mini lilies: what are they called

Its flowers, similar to mini-lilies, as it turns out, are not known to everyone, although the plant is often used as a potted plant.

Types of marshmallows and features of their cultivation

Today there are a large number of species - about 100.

Note!Only about 12 of them are adapted to be grown at home.

So, the most common are:

Atamas - loving cool air, and its yellow or white flowers reach 3 cm in diameter;
Snow-white zephyranthes already has larger flowers, which reach 6 cm in diameter and somewhat resemble crocuses in appearance. It blooms abundantly, so it forms a whole bouquet of delicate flowers;
The variety Powerful Pink deserves special attention - a delightful plant with small, piercingly pink flowers up to 6 cm in diameter. During flowering, a whole heap of flowers is formed on one bush.

Pankratius

This plant has a second name - "lily star". The flower's appearance is very unusual. Its elongated petals and very elongated stamens form something unusual.

Why is pankration called "lily-star"

This plant got its second name because its elongated funnel-shaped petals and perianth form a radiant structure, reminiscent of the radiance of a star. Due to the fact that the homeland of the plant is quite warm climatic zones, it is practically not grown outdoors in Russia. But for home conditions, it will be an excellent option. True, from time to time it will have to be taken out to cooler conditions, for example, on the balcony or in the greenhouse of a private house.

All plants that look like a lily in the shape of a flower are decorative and can become a real decoration of the garden or enliven the interior of a room.