Southern Swamp Lily (Crinum americanum): Native Wetland Fragrance

Southern Swamp Lily (Crinum americanum) is a native southeastern U.S. perennial for wet soils — swamps, marshes, and pond edges. It forms a rosette of strap-like leaves and sends up succulent stems bearing umbels of fragrant, white, spider-like flowers with long, narrow petals and prominent stamens. Blooms spring to fall. A beautiful, tough plant for water gardens.

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