I recently was looking at the files on my computer and realized I had thousands and thousands of unweeded unsorted flower photos on my drive. So I’ve spent some time organizing them by family and flower type – and am now starting to edit. Given how many there are – it’s going to be a long time before I work my way through all of them – to say nothing of what happens when I go out photographing and add more files to the piles . . .

Here’s the first of what will probably be many posts of multiple photos of the same type or similar types of flowers. It seems the best way to get the photos edited and out there.

Today’s photos are of String Lilies. The most common string lilies are Crinum americanun, a plant native to the Southeastern US. It’s one of the wildflowers that can grow in difficult conditions – and is often one of the first wildflowers to return after a fire. They are members of the Amaryllidaceae family. Originally they were classified in the liliaceae family, and I have seen them listed in the Xanthorrhoeaceae family.

These first string lily photos were taken in Florida.

At Fairchild Botanical Garden

At Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

In the Big Cypress Wilderness Preserve

And in the Everglades National Park

I also photographed a type of crinum at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

I’ve also photographed a couple of sets of flowers that were labeled String Lilies – without any specific botanical identification. I can see similarities to the crinium – but they clearly are something different. I’m just not sure what. This is most likely one of the situations where more than one type of flower has the same common name and aren’t botanically the same flower.

At Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina

And finally a few from Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my string lily photos – and if anyone happens to know what types of flowers these last two sets are – I hope you’ll let me know. Thanks 🙂

2 Comments

karen gimson on January 19, 2016 at 12:46 pm

Glorious photos Patty, for a perishing cold day here in the UK. I especially love the pink and white striped one from Brookgreen Gardens. I wonder if it can be grown over here, perhaps in a greenhouse. All the best- Karen Gimson
- hankinslawrenceimages on January 19, 2016 at 1:25 pm
  
  My guess is you would need to grow that pink/white string lily in a green house. I photographed it mid-summer in South Carolina – so it may need warm temperatures. Gad you enjoyed seeing my string lily photos