Lilium lancifolium syn. L. tigrinum (tiger lily, lance-leafed lily, var: "Splendens")
Tiger lilies always like to 'dress to impress' 'and this clump at the entrance of a local golf course is putting on quite a show. This cultivar "Splendens" has been bred for heavy flowering and can produce up to twenty five blooms a season from a single stalk! If you plant three of them, the bulbs will reproduce sideways and you'll have a show garden full of tiger lilies in about ten years time.
The scientific name of the tiger lily used to be Lilium tigrinum, which makes sense because tigris is Latin for tiger. However it was later discovered that an earlier botanist had named this species Lilium lancifolium from the Latin lancea ("lance") + folium ("leaf"). In the hothouse world of botanical taxonomy. precedence matters, and (seriously) naming rights can make or break a botanist's career. Not that these beautiful tiger lilies, basking in the afternoon sunshine, really give a hoot about botanists call them.