In the history of Taiwan's democratic movement, the wild lily has become synonymous with the nativist spirit. The lily emblem that symbolized the student movement of the late 1980s to early 1990s was based on a wild plant found only in Taiwan-the Formosa lily (a.k.a. the Taiwan lily).
在台灣民主運動歷程中，野百合已成為本土精神的代名詞，八○年代中期學運型塑的野百合符號，藍本依據的正是台灣原生特有種植物──台灣百合（高砂百合）。