Common Starlily

  • The Star lily can easily be recognized by its star-shaped white flowers with elongate tubes that appear to grow directly from the center of a basal rosette of narrow, grass-like leaves.

  • The flowers seem to have six petals, but technically these are a set of three petals alternating with three sepals. 

  • Star lily is the only species in the entire genus Leucocrinum and is restricted to prairies, sagebrush grasslands, deserts, and mountain meadows of western North America