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Schoenolirion croceum
Also called Wood Candle
Yellow sunnybell is a small bulbous wildflower from the southeastern United States that grows in moist to seasonally wet pinelands, bogs and rock outcrops. Its key to growing it is consistent moisture in spring and tolerance of a drier summer.
Schoenolirion croceum, known by the common names yellow sunnybell, sunnybells and swamp candle, is a species of flowering plant in the Agave subfamily. It is native to the Southeastern United States from Texas to North Carolina. It is found on moist rock outcrops, in wet pinelands and in habitats that are very wet in the spring but dry in the summer. In middle Tennessee, it is found in fen-like areas in cedar glades, fed by spring water. Further south, it inhabits wet pine savannas and bogs.
It produces yellow flowers in the spring.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schoenolirion croceum 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.
