The Atamasco Lily (Zephyrantes Atamasca) is a wildflower you will actually like. Countless weeks, I have been on Sneeze-weed, but this week I bring you something beautiful and well loved. The Atamasco Lily is one that is just beautiful. The flower is a real lily with grass like leaves and only stands four inches to the ground. It has six petals and is completely snow white unless it's near minerals that will give it a tinge of pink. The inside of the flower has a little yellow in it and there are six bright yellow stamens in it.
Atamasco Lilies love wetlands like creek banks, lake fronts and riverbanks. The flower is seen throughout the Southeast including Georgia, Mississippi Alabama and Florida. The flowers reproduce from bulbs after 3 to four years. Flowers that are this spectacular only come out at various times like some Flocks and our Sweet William. Early spring Atamasco is when it usually blooms. People plant woodland gardens of Narcissus, Trillium, Trifolium and Jonquils. The early blooms of these lilies in spring are wonderful, and you don't want to miss an indigenous Alabama native in action.This flower is a very beautiful member of the Amaryllis family.
I got information on this flower through a site called
http://www.auburn.edu/~deancar/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyranthes_atamasca
http://www.floridata.com/ref/z/zeph_ata.cfm
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