I am so glad to see this lily blooming. Its called a field lily and locals call it a ditch lily. All of the old farmsteads of a hundred years ago had these lilies growing in their yards next to their houses. The lilies still grow in the rural ditches today even if the houses aren't there anymore.
I harvested this plant from a ditch across form the Xenia Cemetery in Dallas County. Xenia was an old coal mining town and all that is left is the cemetery. My neighbors who lived across the way from us in Woodward are buried there. The lilies were growing across there but the farm house and barn were long gone. Lilies keep growing in the ditch. The train actually stopped at this coal mining town to fill up the steam engine water tanks before heading to the town of Woodward. The train crossed the now famous bridge called High Trestle Trail Bridge which can be seen on national tv stations. The bridge has designs on it that are copied in commercial designs as well as the bridge is shown in backgrounds to depict Iowa
The bridge spans the Des Moines River and many of photo of old was taken of the trains crossing it.
The artist that created the designs was trying to create the feeling of going through a coal mining cave.
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