Liliaceae (Liliaceae)
General description:
Bulbiferous or rhizomatous perennials. Aerial stem erect, rarely subterranean, simple or branching. Vernation convolutive to curved or flat. Foliage leaves alternate, or seemingly opposite or verticillate, sometimes crowded at basis of aerial stem, filif
Distribution:
A family comprising 17 genera , distributed in subtropical to arctic zones of the Northern Hemisphere, abundant in temperate Eurasia and in western N America.
Ecology:
The members of the Lilioideae grow mostly on the forest floor, at forest margins, in grassland or alpine meadows, also on marshy ground, in sand dunes or of open vegetation types. Gagea, Tulipa, and several species of Erythronium are