Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

2845
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Amaryllidaceae
Hymenocallis crassifolia

? MISAPPLIED
PLANTS National Database: Liliaceae
Hymenocallis floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Amaryllidaceae
044-03-001
Hymenocallis crassifolia

Common Name:
Spiderlily

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in tidal marshes, margins of tidal guts, banks of blackwater rivers, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet ...Moist

Leaves:
Simple

Flower:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual
3 sepals
3 petals
6 stamens
Inferior ovary

Fruit:
Summer
Capsule

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p326
All About SC Wildflowers p182
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p040
Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p098




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