Your lily is definitely the Carolina Lily, Lilium michauxii. The whorled leaves that are widest between the mid-point and the tip are characteristic of this species. Nice find! The liatris looks like Liatris elegans, but that is a large plant, up to five feet (1.5 meters) tall. And your pictures aren't bad at all. Eugene Zielinski Augusta, GA USA > [Original Message] > From: Justin Smith <oothal@hotmail.com> > To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Date: 9/12/2009 7:53:23 PM > Subject: Re: [pbs] Anyone an expert on native Liatris and Lilium of Texas? > > > Hi All, > > > > Sorry I was going to post the pics last night but Mr Sandman put me out. I didn't have a flickr account so I got that done today. Uploaded 3 pics so everyone interested can see the Lilium flower, Lilium plant with seed pod and what I think is a kind of Liatris. The Liatris is not very large. All of the ones I saw were laying over. With the flower head overpowering the miniscule size of the stem. The single stems were all short with the longest one about 20 cm long. Upon a closer look at the pic I saw the leaves were not fuzzy like I thought but the stem is. Anyway I hope you can tell enough about them to ID them. My photography is not the best in the world. A fact that my brother so eagerly reminds me of. lol > > > > http://flickr.com/photos/oothal/… >