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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hymenocallis coronaria
FAMILY
Amaryllidaceae
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Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.
Learn more about Hymenocallis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
This is the only Hymenocallis species that will be encountered in rocky river shoals of the interior provinces (inland from the Coastal Plain), per Weakley's Flora (2022)
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hymenocallis coronaria
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hymenocallis coronaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Hymenocallis coronaria
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Hymenocallis caroliniana
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 044-03-002:
Hymenocallis occidentalis FAMILY Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hymenocallis occidentalis
COMMON NAME:
Rocky-shoals Spiderlily, Catawba Spiderlily, Carolina Spiderlily, Cahaba Lily
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Judy Gordon jegmvchymencoron_brd2
May Lincoln County GA
Broad River Shoals, Lake Thurmond
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JK Marlow jkm080517_022
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm080517_032
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Stamens united into a wide flaring corona-like tube, filaments extended, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm080517_040
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm080517_045
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm080517_062
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm090522_012
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Petals & sepals [tepals] linear, spreading at nearly right angles to the tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm090522_017
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Leaves basal, linear, strap-like, surrounded at base by tubular sheaths, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm160515_655
May McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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Keith Bradley kab_h_coronaria_0768
May Richland County SC
Three Rivers Greenway
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_h_coronaria
May
Stamens and corolla unite at base to form a cup-like structure (corona), per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Judy Gordon jeg_09782
June McCormick County SC
Staminal cup [corona] more than 4.5cm long, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm0406b_24
June Chester County SC
Landsford Canal State Park
The taxonomy of Hymenocallis is controversial, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm0406c_16
June Chester County SC
Landsford Canal State Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hymenocallis coronaria
FAMILY
Amaryllidaceae
(?)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hymenocallis coronaria
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hymenocallis coronaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Hymenocallis coronaria
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Hymenocallis caroliniana
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 044-03-002:
Hymenocallis occidentalis
FAMILY
Amaryllidaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hymenocallis occidentalis
715
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rocky river shoals, usually with Justicia americana and Podostemum ceratophyllum, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Flowers are sessile.
6 tepals
6 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in a terminal branched umbel
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p182
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p184
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p140
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p173
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p206
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p163
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p169
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p172
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p381
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p437
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p018
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