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Godfrey's spiderlily

Hymenocallis godfreyi

Godfrey's spiderlily is a rare bulb-forming perennial native only to marshes in Wakulla County, Florida, where it spreads by underground rhizomes. It thrives in consistently wet, marshy conditions and is grown mainly by specialist collectors and in wetland restoration.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil constantly wet or the bulb in shallow standing water.
Soil
Wet, organic, peaty or sandy-loam soil that holds moisture.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Florida
Climate
subtropical

About

Hymenocallis godfreyi (Godfrey's spiderlily or St. Mark's marsh spiderlily) is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae.

The plant is a rare endemic known only from marshes near Fort San Marcos de Apalache on the St. Mark's River in Wakulla County, Florida. Some of its range lies inside St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

Other Hymenocallis plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenocallis godfreyi 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.

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