Scientific Name: Hymenocallis (incl. hybrid cvs.)
Common Name: spider lily, Peruvian daffodil
Family Name: Amaryllidaceae
Origin: Caribbean Island, Garden origin, U.S. - southeast
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering pot plant
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Weeping
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Bog
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Umbel, White, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown
Key ID Features:
Flowers with long spindly white tepals, stamens connected with a thin funnel shaped white membrane.