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Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it in swamps, bottomlands, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Flowers are sessile.
Bisexual
6 tepals
6 stamens
Inferior ovary
Flowers in an umbel

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p182
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p184

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hymenocallis liriosme   FAMILY Amaryllidaceae

GREATER THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hymenocallis liriosme   FAMILY Liliaceae