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Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Red to white, often striped
Bisexual
6 tepals, perianth funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate
6 stamens
Inferior ovary
Flowers in an umbel

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Asparagales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Crinum americanum var. americanum FAMILY Amaryllidaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crinum americanum FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Crinum americanum var. americanum

COMMON NAME:
Swamp Lily, String Lily, Seven-sisters

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image of Crinum americanum var. americanum, Swamp Lily, String Lily, Seven-sisters

Keith Bradley kab_c_americanum_75443

September Collier County FL

Big Cypress National Preserve

Each tepal bears a stamen with a purplish-pink filament & yellowish anther, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.

"Despite what developers will tell you about restoration, she said, once a piece of land is graded, the biologic organisms and understructure of the soil are destroyed. 'No one knows how to easily re-create that, short of years of hand-weeding. Leaving land alone doesn't work; the natives are overwhelmed by the invaders.' Spot bulldozing is common... even on land that is supposedly protected. 'Much of this destruction is done out of expediency and ignorance.' She believed people are unlikely to value what they cannot name." — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, quoting biologist Elaine Brooks