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Your search found 20 taxa in the family Amaryllidaceae, Amaryllis family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name: Jonquil, Apodanthus Daffodil
Weakley's Flora: (4/13/22) Narcissus jonquilla FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Narcissus jonquilla FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Narcissus jonquilla 044-01-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it . It is cultivated as an ornamental, persistent and naturalized in lawns, roadsides, woodland borders, and disturbed areas
Uncommon in SC Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Two-flower Narcissus, Twin-sisters, Primrose-peerless
Weakley's Flora: (4/13/22) Narcissus ×medioluteus FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Narcissus ×medioluteus [poeticus × tazetta] FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Narcissus tazetta × poeticus 044-01-003 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it . It is cultivated as an ornamental, and persistent and naturalized in lawns, roadsides, woodland borders, and disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Common Daffodil, Trumpet Narcissus
Weakley's Flora: (4/13/22) Narcissus pseudonarcissus FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Narcissus pseudonarcissus FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Narcissus pseudo-narcissus 044-01-005 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it . It is cultivated as an ornamental and can be persistent and naturalized in lawns, roadsides, woodland borders, and disturbed areas
Uncommon
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Summer Snowflake
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Leucojum aestivum FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Leucojum aestivum ssp. aestivum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Leucojum aestivum 044-02-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it to be long persistent after cultivation, and perhaps spreading slightly
Rare
Non-native: Europe
Common Name: Florida Spiderlily, Carolina Spiderlily
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hymenocallis crassifolia FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
(?) (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS National Database: Hymenocallis floridana FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hymenocallis crassifolia 044-03-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in tidal marshes, margins of tidal guts, banks of blackwater rivers
Common (uncommon in NC, rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rocky-shoals Spiderlily, Catawba Spiderlily, Carolina Spiderlily, Cahaba Lily
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hymenocallis coronaria FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hymenocallis coronaria FAMILY: Liliaceae
(?) (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hymenocallis occidentalis 044-03-002 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in rocky river shoals, usually with Justicia americana & Podostemum ceratophyllum
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Hammock Spiderlily, Woodland Spiderlily, Northern Spiderlily
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in mesic soils of slopes and floodplain forests, gabbro and other calcareous upland flats
Uncommon in SC Piedmont & in GA, rare elsewhere in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Western Marsh Spiderlily, Louisiana Marsh Spiderlily
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Hymenocallis liriosme FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Hymenocallis liriosme FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in swamps, bottomlands, ditches
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Spring-run Spiderlily
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Hymenocallis rotata FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hymenocallis rotata FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in spring-runs
Rare, endemic to FL
Native: south of the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Atamasco Lily, Rain-lily, Easter Lily, Naked Lily
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Zephyranthes atamasco FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS National Database: Zephyranthes atamasca var. atamasca FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zephyranthes atamasco 044-04-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in bottomland forests and adjacent road shoulders, wet meadows, sometimes in upland forests over mafic rocks
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Rain-lily, Treat's Zephyr-lily
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Zephyranthes treatiae FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zephyranthes atamasca var. treatiae FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in wet savannas
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Atamasco Lily, Red-margined Atamasco Lily, Rain-lily
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Zephyranthes simpsonii FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zephyranthes simpsonii FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zephyranthes simpsonii 044-04-002 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in dry to dry-mesic sandy soils (usually with admixture of shell hash) of coastal fringe sandhills or mainland maritime forests, usually associated with Quercus hemispherica, on barrier islands or within about 10 km of the ocean (NC, SC), pine flatwoods (FL, GA)
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fall Rain-lily, Autumn Zephyrlily
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Zephyranthes candida FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zephyranthes candida FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zephyranthes candida 044-04-003 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it to be persistent or spreading from cultivation
Rare
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Southern Swamp-lily, String Lily, Seven-sisters
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Crinum americanum var. americanum FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Crinum americanum FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in swamp forests
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Spider Lily, Hurricane Lily, Surprise Lily, Magic Lily
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Lycoris radiata var. radiata FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Lycoris radiata FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lycoris radiata 044-06-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it , especially in lawns around older homes. Cultivated and persistent (or slowly spreading locally)
Rare
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Yellow Stargrass, Hairy Yellow Stargrass, Common Stargrass, Upland Stargrass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hypoxis hirsuta FAMILY: Hypoxidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Hypoxis hirsuta FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hypoxis hirsuta var. hirsuta 044-07-001a FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in a wide variety of dry to moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Bristleseed Stargrass, Pineland Stargrass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hypoxis wrightii FAMILY: Hypoxidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hypoxis wrightii FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hypoxis micrantha 044-07-002 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in wet pine savannas
Common in NC-SC (uncommon in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fringed Stargrass
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Hypoxis juncea FAMILY: Hypoxidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hypoxis juncea FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Hypoxis juncea 044-07-003 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it in wet pine savannas
Common in GA, uncommon in SC, rare in NC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Agave, Eastern False Aloe, Rattlesnake-master, American Aloe
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Agave virginica FAMILY: Agavaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Manfreda virginica FAMILY: Agavaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agave virginica 044-08-001 FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
Look for it on granite flatrocks, diabase glades, limestone and dolomite barrens and glades, xeric woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, sandhill woodlands, dry roadbanks
Uncommon in GA-SC, rare in NC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Snowdrop
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Galanthus nivalis FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Galanthus nivalis FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it to be persistent after cultivation
Rare
Non-native: southern & central Europe
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