This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Meadow or Field Lily: Canada Lily. Lilium canadense.
Lily Family. June - July.
Found in wet meadows and swamps. Nova Scotia to Georgia, west beyond Mississippi, Minnesota and Missouri.
Yellow to orange, with purple-brown spots inside, terminating stems 2 - 5 feet high.
Usually in whorls of 4 - 10.

Wild Yellow Lily.
Turban Lily.
L. superbum. Flowers orange-yellow, half drooping, divisions more reflexed than those of the preceding, thickly spotted. Upper leaves arranged alternately, lower leaves in whorls.
 
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