Label a Lily Printable – Numbered Worksheet With a Key

All 8 parts on the diagram

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Tepals The six parts of the flower, in two rings of three. In a lily the outer and inner rings look alike, so they are called tepals rather than petals and sepals.
Stamens The six male parts. Each is a thin stalk (the filament) with an anther on the end that makes pollen.
Pistil The female part in the middle, made of three joined carpels. The stigma sits on a long style, above the ovary where the seeds form.
Stem The tall stalk carrying the leaves and, at its top, the flowers.
Leaves The narrow leaves growing along the stem.
Bulb Underground, it keeps the plant alive from one year to the next. A lily's bulb has no papery skin.
Scales The fleshy, overlapping scales the bulb is made of.
Roots The roots that grow from the base of the bulb.

How this list was compiled: Read 2026-09-27. (1) Wikipedia, Lilium, Description, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium : tall perennials with naked (tunicless) scaly underground bulbs, their organs of perennation; basal roots at the base of the bulb; flowers borne at the stem tip with six free tepals, a nectary at the base of each; a superior ovary; a three-celled capsule. (2) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911), Lily, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Lily : the flower of two whorls of three free parts each, six free stamens, and a pistil of three carpels ripening into a three-valved capsule of winged seeds; all have scaly bulbs; leaves and a tall stem. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site by script, 2026-09-27. Own work, nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

A printable to label a lily: eight numbers on one plant. Numbers 1 to 3 are in the open flower, 4 and 5 are the stem and its leaves, and 6 to 8 are under the soil line.

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Lily word bank

In alphabetical order, to copy onto the board: bulb, leaves, pistil, roots, scales, stamens, stem, tepals.

Stamens or pistil, bulb or scales

In the flower, the stamens (2) are the six thin stalks with a pollen sac on each end, and the pistil (3) is the single part in the very middle. The tepals (1) are the six large pointed parts around them. Under the soil, the bulb (6) is the whole swollen base, and the scales (7) are the fleshy pieces it is made of.

When marking, petals is right on line 1: a lily's petals and sepals look alike, so the six together are called tepals.
The bud beside the open flower is drawn, but has no number.

Questions and answers

What color is a lily?

Lilies may be white, yellow, orange, pink, red or purple, among many colors, often marked with spots or brush strokes. Any of those suits a sheet that gets colored in.

What is a true lily?

A plant of the genus Lilium, which grows from a scaly bulb. Plenty of plants with lily in their common name belong to other genera, so they are not true lilies.

How tall does a lily grow?

Lilies are tall perennials, from 1 to 6 feet high (30 to 180 centimeters). The flowers open at the tip of the stem in late spring or summer.

What is the fruit of a lily?

A capsule with three cells, which the pistil ripens into after the flower fades. Its seeds ripen in late summer.