Lilium rhodopeum is a
European species of plants in the
lily family
The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a ...
. It is endemic to the
Rhodopi Mountains of
Bulgaria and
Greece, where it is found in alpine meadows and on mountain slopes.
[Dimpoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.] It is as critically endangered and listed as an IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) red list threatened species. This Balkan endemic can be found in Bulgaria and Greece where it is native to the
Rhodopi mountains from which it takes it name.
References
Flora of Bulgaria
Flora of Greece
Plants described in 1905
rhodopeum
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