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Pictured: Hymenocallis occidentalis — the species. This variety isn’t separately illustrated.
Liliaceae family
Henry's Spiderlily (var. eulae) Hymenocallis occidentalis var. eulae variety
Native
Henry's Spiderlily (var. eulae) is a plant native to the lower 48 states.
More about this plant
Hymenocallis occidentalis is a plant species native to the southern United States. It is known along the Gulf Coast from South Carolina to Texas, and in the Mississippi Valley as far north as southern Illinois and Indiana. It is also cultivated as an ornamental elsewhere because of its showy, sweet-smelling flowers. Common names include woodland spider-lily, hammock spider-lily or northern spider-lily. Wikipedia →
Growing & care
USDA PLANTS · TRY Conditions
Sources · Conditions
Cold hardiness (derived) — Hardiness
- Hardiness
- ≥ zone 10 derived from its U.S. range
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a
guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Wildlife & pollinators
How pollinator value is scored →❧ Caterpillar hosts Documented caterpillar host
Recorded feeding on Hymenocallis in North America, including:
Named species (a documented Nearctic sample, not exhaustive) from NHM HOSTS (CC0).
Species thumbnails re-hosted from iNaturalist — Creative Commons, credited per image (hover for credit). Click any species to see it on iNaturalist. Not exhaustive; many taxa have no openly-licensed photo yet.
Related plants
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Alligatorlily
Hymenocallis palmeri
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Caribbean Spiderlily
Hymenocallis caribaea
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Native
Choctaw Spiderlily
Hymenocallis choctawensis
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Coastal Carolina Spiderlily
Hymenocallis crassifolia
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Dixie Spiderlily
Hymenocallis duvalensis
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Native
Dwarf Spiderlily
Hymenocallis pygmaea
●●○○○ Same genus / family, ranked by ecological value — from the PlantKey catalog
Sources for this entry (11) Open & cited
[01] Scientific name & family — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[02] Growth habit & duration — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[03] Native status & distribution — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503)
[04] Common name — USDA PLANTS (via GBIF)
[05] Invasive / introduced status — USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — native status
[06] Description — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
[07] Ecological value — GloBI
[08] Cold hardiness (derived) — Derived from U.S. range × USDA PHZM zones
[09] Chromosomes — ChromoDB — IAPT/IOPB chromosome data series (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0)
[10] Caterpillar species — NHM HOSTS (CC0)
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