Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Choctaw spiderlily

Hymenocallis choctawensis

Choctaw spiderlily
Photo: Realtube, CC BY-SA 4.0

Choctaw spiderlily is a bulbous plant from the Southeastern U.S. that grows along streambanks and in swamp forests. It needs consistently moist soil and partial shade to thrive.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, and water freely during the growing season.
Soil
Rich, moisture-retaining soil or wet loam; tolerates periodic flooding.
Temperature
15–32 °C; hardy in mild temperate zones, protect from hard freezes below about -10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Hymenocallis choctawensis is a plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, with the common names Choctaw spiderlily and Florida panhandle spider-lily. It grows along streambanks and in swamp forests of western Florida, eastern Louisiana, and southern parts of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.

The species is often misidentified as H. caroliniana or H. occidentalis. It can be distinguished from those species by its rhizomatous bulb and triangular bracts.

Other Hymenocallis plants

Hymenocallis acutifolia · Hymenocallis baumlii · Caribbean spiderlily · Hymenocallis clivorum · Shoals spiderlily · Coastal Carolina Spiderlily · Hymenocallis durangoensis · Dixie spiderlily · Hymenocallis eucharidifolia · Franklin spiderlily · Godfrey's spiderlily · Hymenocallis guerreroensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenocallis choctawensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…