liliaceous plant

Noun
  1. Plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber (synset 112445786)
    is a type of: bulbous plant - plant growing from a bulb
    subtypes:
    • lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
    • agapanthus, lily of the nile - any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers
    • albuca - any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers; South Africa
    • colic root, colicroot, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root - any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic
    • alliaceous plant - bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor
    • alstroemeria - any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers
    • amianthum muscaetoxicum, amianthum muscitoxicum, fly poison - all parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae
    • anthericum liliago, saint-bernard's-lily - southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small starry greenish-white flowers
    • amber lily, anthericum torreyi - plant having basal grasslike leaves and a narrow open cluster of starlike yellowish-orange flowers atop a leafless stalk; southwestern United States; only species of Anthericum growing in North America
    • asphodel - any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
    • bloomeria crocea, golden star, golden stars - California plant having grasslike leaves and showy orange flowers
    • brodiaea - any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium
    • mariposa, mariposa lily, mariposa tulip - any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals; southwestern United States and Mexico
    • fairy lantern, globe lily - any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
    • cat's-ear - any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears
    • calochortus nuttallii, sego lily - perennial plant having clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico
    • camas, camash, camass, camosh, quamash - any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America
    • dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth, dogtooth violet - perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated
    • avalanche lily, erythronium montanum - perennial herb having large white flowers marked with orange; found near the snow line in the northwestern United States
    • tulip - any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower
    • day lily, daylily - any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day
    • hyacinth - any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs
    • bluebell, harebell, hyacinthoides nonscripta, scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth - sometimes placed in genus Scilla
    • grape hyacinth - any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
    • scilla, squill - an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
    • false asphodel - a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers
    • sea onion, sea squill, squill, urginea maritima - having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
    • bog asphodel - either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
    • false hellebore, hellebore - perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
    • bear grass, squaw grass, xerophyllum tenax - plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
    • death camas, zigadene - any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous
    • trillium, wake-robin, wood lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
    • convallaria majalis, lily of the valley, may lily - low-growing perennial plant having usually two large oblong lanceolate leaves and a raceme of small fragrant nodding bell-shaped flowers followed by scarlet berries
    • clinton's lily, clintonia - any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries
    • lily turf, lilyturf, liriope muscari - Asiatic perennial tufted herb with grasslike evergreen foliage and clusters of dark mauve grapelike flowers; grown as ground cover
    • false lily of the valley, maianthemum canadense - small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers
    • false lily of the valley, maianthemum bifolium - small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan
    • solomon's-seal - any of several plants of the genus Polygonatum having paired drooping yellowish-green flowers and a thick rootstock with scars shaped like Solomon's seal
    belongs to: family liliaceae, liliaceae, lily family - includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae

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