Global InformationHymenocallis palmeri information
| Alligator-lily | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Hymenocallis |
| Species: | H. palmeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Hymenocallis palmeri S.Wats.
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Hymenocallis palmeri is a plant in the family Amaryllidaceae.[3] Common name is Alligator-lily. It is endemic to Florida, found in cypress swamps, wet meadows, open pine woodlands and wet roadsides.[1]
Hymenocallis palmeri produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 4 cm across. Leaves are bluish green, up to 65 cm long and 10 mm across. Umbels have only 1 or 2 flowers, if 2 then opening one at a time. Flowers are erect, funnel-shaped, white with a greenish eye in the center and teeth along the margins of the staminal corona. Seeds are green, egg-shaped, up to 20 mm in diameter.[1][3][4]
- ^ a b c Flora of North America vol 26, p 291.
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ a b Sereno Watson, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 14: 301. 1879, Hymenocallis palmeri.
- ^ Sereno Watson, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 14: 301. 1879, Hymenocallis humilis.