Lily (Lilium candidum L.) is an herbaceous, bulbous perennial plant belonging to the family Liliaceae. Studying floral parts of the Lilium candidum had samples collected from different gardens in Baghdad City, Iraq. The Flora of Turkey helped identify the measurements of the floral parts studied. The results found that flowers form funnel shapes, with snow-white colored petals with pink spots in the middle. Flowers are fragrant, with actinomorphic symmetry. Flowers comprising six petals had a cyclic arrangement in biseriate perianth. Petals were lanceolate-linear to lanceolate-shaped and six stamens were opposite with petals and free, and the anthers were versatile that open longitudinally. The cross-section shape of the stigma was triangular, consisting of epidermis with one row of globular cells surrounded by cuticles. The cortex comprises two main types of cells, the collenchyma cells found below epidermis, and chlorenchyma. The vascular bundles closed in three collaterals, and each tissue corner arrangement consisted of xylem and phloem covered by bundle cup fibers at the phloem side. Anthers take on cordate shape in cross section, and the epidermis consists of one row with globular cells surrounded by cuticle. The cortex cell has two main types of cells. In the first type, the two layers of collenchyma cells appear below the epidermis, while the second type of cortex was the parenchymal cells. The pollen grains were golden-yellow, ellipsoid size, shaped in polar and equatorial views, with several apertures and reticulated exine sculpturing.

Keywords: Lily (L. candidum L.), Liliaceae, floral parts, petals, stamens, stigma

Key findings: Lily (L. candidum L.) plant samples collected had their floral parts assessed. Lilium candidum is famous for being edible and medicinal functions based on its biochemical composition and pharmacological effects.