Index / Search / Hymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis
§1 Plant
Hymenocallis occidentalis (Leconte) Kunth var. occidentalis
vernacular northern spiderlily — variety · 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
· 136 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 175 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bulb
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 136 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 10 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Benton 47005
- Bledsoe 47007
- Cheatham 47021
- Cocke 47029
- Coffee 47031
- Davidson 47037
- Dickson 47043
- Dyer 47045
- Giles 47055
- Grundy 47061
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Hickman 47081
- Humphreys 47085
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Loudon 47105
- Maury 47119
- Monroe 47123
- Montgomery 47125
- Obion 47131
- Overton 47133
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rutherford 47149
- Shelby 47157
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Tipton 47167
- Van Buren 47175
- Wayne 47181
- Weakley 47183
- Williamson 47187
- Wilson 47189
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/HYOCO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7227594 ↗Record version
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