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It is known along the Gulf Coast from South Carolina to Texas, and in the Mississippi Valley as far north as southern Illinois and Indiana. [3] It is also cultivated as an ornamental elsewhere because of its showy, sweet-smelling flowers. [1] Common names include woodland spider-lily, hammock spider-lily or northern spider-lily. [4]
Hymenocallis / ˌ h aɪ m ɪ n ə ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [7] (US) or / ˌ h aɪ m ɛ n oʊ ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [8] (UK) is a genus of flowering plants in the amaryllis family native to the Americas. [9]Hymenocallis contains more than 60 species of herbaceous bulbous perennials native to the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
They are bulb-producing perennial plants.The leaves are long and slender, 30–60 cm long and only 0.5–2 cm broad. The scape is erect, 30–70 cm tall, bearing a terminal umbel of four to eight flowers, which can be white, yellow, orange, or red.
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
Spider lily is the common name for a number of different plant species within the subfamily Amaryllidoideae which belong to the following genera: Crinum , a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants in the family Amaryllidaceae found along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, including South Africa
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Hymenocallis latifolia (mangrove spider-lily or perfumed spider-lily) is a bulb-forming perennial that grows on beaches, sand dunes, mangrove swamps and other wetlands along the coasts of Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, etc.).
The idea of coming face to face with any spider-like creature is enough to fill any arachnophobe with horror, let alone encountering one with large, spiky legs. ... A ‘striking’ creature with ...