NameThatPlant.net: Crinum americanum var. americanum

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crinum americanum var. americanum FAMILY Amaryllidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Crinum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crinum americanum FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Crinum americanum var. americanum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Crinum americanum var. americanum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Crinum americanum

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

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image of Crinum americanum var. americanum, Southern 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 (Nelson, 2006).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Crinum americanum var. americanum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Crinum americanum

407

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamp forests, freshwater marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare (historically in NC Coastal Plain, but not recently seen)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
WinterSummer/Fall
Red to white, often striped
Bisexual
6 tepals, perianth funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate
6 stamens
Inferior ovary

Flowers in an umbel

FRUIT:
WinterSummer/Fall?
Capsule

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