# What kind of flower is this?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 7, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581056 "2011-05-07T11:17:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Danger\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581056/1 "2011-05-07T11:17:06Z")

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[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81226/Pressetur%20til%20Holland%20129.JPG](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81226/Pressetur%20til%20Holland%20129.JPG)

Is anyone able to identify it?

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**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581056/2 "2011-05-07T11:55:31Z")

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The common name is Crown Imperial, or maybe Kaiser’s Crown. A nice, showy, bulb-grown plant. Said to repel gophers, and deer won’t eat it.

> **[Fritillaria imperialis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_imperialis)**
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> Fritillaria imperialis, the crown imperial, imperial fritillary or Kaiser's crown, is a species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to a wide stretch from the Anatolian plateau of Turkey, Iraq and Iran (i.e. Kurdistan) to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India and the Himalayan foothills. It is also widely cultivated as an ornamental and reportedly naturalized in Austria, Sicily, and Washington State, USA. The common names and also the epithet "imperialis" Fritillaria imperi...

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**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-flower-is-this/581056/3 "2011-05-07T13:47:43Z")

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> [@Arkcon](#):
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> Said to repel gophers, and deer won’t eat it.

Give it a close whiff, and you’ll understand why. :eek: