Find Your Ask the Expert: Need help identifying a flower. I found this plant at our old hunting club and rescued what look kind of like an iris. The leaves have a iris appearance with flat tall leaves but it is more like a fan because they are on one stalk that gets up to about three feet. I have put some in shade and some in full sun, and it seems to like full sun best. The flowers are like a tiger day lily (orange with specks) but they tiny (when fully open they are a little larger than a quarter and only stay open a day like a day lily) Can you identify this flower? I don’t have a picture.Thanks for you help. Kim
Kim,
I think you have a Blackberry Lily (Belamcanda chinesis) also known as Leopard Lily. I found this picture of a Blackberry Lily on Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Thanks for your help. The picture is my mystery flower.
One of these had been languishing in my back yard, not blooming for at least the ten year I have been here. I noticed that it may be an Iris and transplanted it to one of my few sunny places. Within a few dry months, it more than doubled in size and is now in bloom. Very rewarding and beautiful.