OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crinum americanum   FAMILY Liliaceae

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

Crinum americanum var. americanum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Crinum americanum var. americanum

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

 

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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
6 tepals, perianth funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate
6 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in an umbel

FRUIT:
WinterSummer/Fall?
Capsule

 

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