Alligatorlily
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Hymenocallis palmeri
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Amaryllidaceae
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Landscape Uses:
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Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also wet wildflower gardens. |
Ecological Restoration Notes: |
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Availability: |
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Grown by enthusiasts. |
Description: |
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Small to medium herbaceous wildflower. |
Height: |
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Typically 1-2 feet in height, more when in flower. About as broad as tall. |
Growth Rate: |
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Moderate. |
Range: |
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Endemic to Florida from Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland north to Brevard, Osceola, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties; disjunct in Duval and Bradford counties. |
Habitats: |
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Marshes and marl prairies. |
Soils: |
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Wet to moist, seasonally inundated calcareous or sandy soils, without humus. |
Nutritional Requirements: |
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Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils. |
Salt Water Tolerance: |
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Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water. |
Salt Wind Tolerance: |
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Low; salt wind may burn the leaves. |
Drought Tolerance: |
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Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought. |
Light Requirements: |
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Full sun. |
Flower Color: |
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White. |
Flower Characteristics: |
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Showy. |
Flowering Season: |
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Spring-fall. |
Fruit: |
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Globose fleshy capsule. |
Wildlife and Ecology: |
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Horticultural Notes: |
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Can be grown from seed and divisions. |
Comments: |
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Luber grasshoppers eat the leaves. See also the Florida Wildflower Foundation's Flower Friday page. |
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James Johnson, 2013 In habitat, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida Enlarge
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