Add botanical flair to your correspondence with these beautiful unused Mountain Flora Series "Wood Lily" postage stamps! This alpine wildflower design is perfect for adding a pop of color and a touch of nature's splendor to your cards and letters or save-the-dates and wedding invitations. In pristine mint condition, these self-adhesive USPS forever postage stamps are valid for current mailing when combined with the total required postage based on the weight of your correspondence. The "Forever" designation means this stamp can be used to mail a standard letter at the current first-class letter rate, regardless of future postage increases, ensuring you can use them with confidence for your future mailing needs. Embrace mountain floral splendor with this captivating postage stamp!

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Wood Lily
• Series: Mountain Flora
• Year Issued: 2022
• Face Value: Forever stamp (current first-class standard letter rate — see below)
• Topic(s): Flowers, Wildflowers, Floral, Botanical, Alpine Flowers, Mountain Flora, Spring Flower, Mountain Wedding, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Mountains, California’s Sierra Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona (at higher elevations), Oregon, Washington
• Color(s): Red, Orange, Green, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save the Date Announcements, Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements, Thank You Cards, Snail Mail, and more…
• Printing Method: Offset Press
• Scott Number: 5672 (coil version)
• Adhesion Type: Self-adhesive
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 2022 “Wood Lily” Forever Stamp was issued on March 14, 2022 in Alpine, Wyoming, as part of the Mountain Flora series by the United States Postal Service. This stamp was illustrated by artist Lili Arnold, whose hand-drawn botanical artwork—later refined digitally—defines the clean, field-guide-inspired aesthetic of the series. The Mountain Flora program marked a deliberate USPS focus on wildflower species adapted to higher elevations and rugged North American landscapes, emphasizing ecological specificity alongside modern Forever-stamp practicality.

This stunning postage stamp depicts the Wood Lily (Lilium philadelphicum) wildflower in vivid, saturated tones. The flower is shown as a bold, upright bloom with sharply pointed petals in fiery orange-red, each petal marked with dark speckles near the throat that draw the eye inward toward the central stamens. Slender green stems and narrow leaves support the blossom, while the pale, uncluttered background heightens the lily’s dramatic color and sculptural form. The illustration conveys both elegance and toughness, reflecting the plant’s ability to thrive in open, often challenging environments.

The Wood Lily wildflower is widely distributed across western, central, and northern North America. In the United States, it is found in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona (at higher elevations), California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and parts of the Northeast, depending on subspecies. It typically grows in open woodlands, mountain meadows, grasslands, forest edges, and rocky slopes, favoring well-drained soils and sunny exposures from low elevations up into subalpine zones. Alternate common names for the wood lily include “prairie lily,” “western red lily,” “Philadelphia lily,” and “rock lily,” names that reflect its broad range, coloration, and habitat preferences.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: Unlike cultivated lilies that often symbolize refinement or ceremonial purity, the Wood Lily grows untended in open meadows, grasslands, and forest edges, which aligns it spiritually with independence and inner strength. Its ability to thrive in exposed, sometimes harsh environments gives it meaning as a symbol of standing visibly and confidently in one’s truth, even when conditions are challenging.

The flower’s intense orange-red color deepens this symbolism. In spiritual and symbolic traditions, fiery hues are associated with life force, passion, creativity, and sacred energy. The wood lily’s upward-facing, star-like petals suggest openness and radiance, often interpreted as a sign of courageous presence and purposeful direction—the willingness to be seen without pretense. Its speckled markings further evoke individuality, reinforcing themes of uniqueness rather than uniform perfection.
Because the wood lily blooms briefly yet memorably, it also carries meaning related to living fully in the moment and honoring cycles of emergence and return. Spiritually, it is often viewed as a reminder that strength does not require hardness, and beauty does not require cultivation—it can arise naturally through resilience, clarity, and alignment with one’s environment.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The 2022 Mountain Flora series was issued by the United States Postal Service (USPS) on March 14, 2022, with the official first-day-of-issue city designated as Alpine, Wyoming, a location chosen to reflect the high-elevation environments celebrated by the stamps. The series marked a focused evolution of USPS floral issues, narrowing its scope to wildflower species native to mountainous and alpine regions of North America—plants adapted to short growing seasons, cold temperatures, and rugged terrain. Issued as First-Class Forever stamps, the Mountain Flora designs aligned with the USPS’s modern, denomination-free approach to postage, ensuring long-term usability regardless of future rate changes. Artistically, the series adopted a clean, contemporary botanical illustration style, featuring single blooms rendered with fine linework, soft gradients, and generous negative space, evoking the clarity of field illustrations while remaining visually refined at stamp scale. Produced in both pane and coil formats, the 2022 Mountain Flora series balanced collectability with operational efficiency, reinforcing the USPS’s long tradition of using everyday postage to highlight native landscapes, ecological resilience, and the quiet beauty of America’s natural heritage.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use an adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates on the USPS website.

ABOUT USPS FOREVER STAMPS: Forever postage is a category of First-Class Mail stamps issued by the United States Postal Service that retains its full mailing value indefinitely, regardless of future postage rate increases. First introduced in 2007, the Forever stamp was designed to simplify mailing by eliminating the need to purchase additional postage when rates change. A single Forever stamp is always valid for sending one standard, one-ounce First-Class letter within the United States, even if it was purchased years earlier at a lower price. In practical use, Forever stamps function exactly like traditional First-Class stamps but offer greater convenience and flexibility. They can be used on everyday correspondence, formal invitations, greeting cards, and business mail, and they may be combined with additional Forever or denominated stamps to meet higher weights or special mailing requirements. Because their value automatically adjusts with postal rates, Forever stamps are especially popular for personal stationery, weddings, and long-term stamp collecting.

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TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.


Product Specifications

Length: 0.98 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.88 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.