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Forb
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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...Wet ...Moist

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!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p109
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p158

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

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crinum americanum   FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Crinum americanum var. americanum