Index / Search / Hymenocallis liriosme
§1 Plant
Hymenocallis liriosme (Raf.) Shinners
vernacular spring spiderlily — species · Liliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Liliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Hymenocallis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 77 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–9
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Green
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bulb
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 77 counties across 6 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Calcasieu 22019
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Terrebonne 22109
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
Mississippi view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Austin 48015
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Calhoun 48057
- Chambers 48071
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Liberty 48291
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Refugio 48391
- Sabine 48403
- Shelby 48419
- Titus 48449
- Tyler 48457
- Upshur 48459
- Victoria 48469
- Waller 48473
- Wharton 48481
- Wood 48499
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HYLI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2860211 ↗Record version
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