Family: Amaryllidaceae
Group: Monocot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Endemic to Hispaniola; cultivated elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for gardens in the Bahamas and perhaps native somewhere in the Archipelago. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 326-327) for gardens in New Providence and Eleuthera (region 8); may be expected to be naturalized. Z. cardinalis C.H. Wright was described based on material collected on New Providence (see Freid et al. 2014), but Correll & Correll and others place that name into synonym here.
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Flora of the West Indies.
Synonyms:
Atamosco cardinalis, Zephyranthes cardinalis.
