Giant Blooming Spider Lily at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve, Florida

Photo taken on Janes Memorial Drive.
Hymenocallis latifolia is a Florida native that is popular for its exceptional foliage and snow-white flowers (Fig. 1). This clumping, herbaceous perennial reaches a height of 2 to 3 feet. It has 3-foot-long, dark green, linear leaves that grow directly from an underground bulb. Numerous, white flowers appear above these attractive leaves in the summer and fall. The fragrant, long lasting flowers have a 6-inch-long flower tube with narrow, long, recurving sepals and petals. The upright filaments of these delicate flowers are connected by a gossamer web. Large, ovoid capsules that produce viable seeds appear on this plant after flowering has ceased.


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Carolina Lily and Turk's Cap Lily Mid-Summer Wildflower Treats

Video: Carolina Lily and Turk's Cap Lily

Isolated Carolina Lily on a single stem on a remote trail hillside in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Large Many-Blossom Turk's Cap Lily along the Blue Ridge Parkway (see below)

Large Many-Blossom Turk's Cap Lily along the Blue Ridge Parkway

The Carolina Lily and Turk's Cap Lily are both spectacular mid-summer wildflowers. The kind of flowers that catch your eye as your going down a mountain road and cause you to stop and turn around.  It's difficult to tell the blossoms apart, but the Turk's Cap has a green star formed where the petals come together and is generally a much larger plant with multiple blossoms in a moist area. If its along a roadside ditch or drainage its probably Turk's Cap. The singular Carolina Lily was found on a relatively dry steep forest hillside along a trail in a remote area. Regardless, they both make a big impression and are not that common in the mountains.

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Jack in the Pulpit - One of My Favorite Late Spring Wildflowers!

Jack in the Pulpit - wild flower Great Smoky Mountains

Jack in the Pulpit - wild flower Great Smoky Mountains

One of my favorite late spring wildflowers. This one is in a very wet shaded environment of a small mountain stream. Once the flower falls off the three big leaves can look like Poison Ivy. These flowers are not easy to find in the wild environment.