''Hymenocallis godfreyi'' (Godfrey's spiderlily) is a plant in the

Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fa ...

. The plant is a rare endemic known only from marshes near Fort San Marcos de Apalache on the St. Mark's River in Wakulla County, Florida. Some of its range lies inside St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. It is a bulb-forming perennial which spreads by means of underground

rhizomes In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

. It has narrow, yellowish-green leaves; broadly funnel-shaped staminal corona, with irregular edges. Each plant produces only two flowers, one opening slightly earlier than the other, each one white with a green eye.Flora of North America, vol 26, p 290
/ref>Smith, GL, & M Darst. 1994. A new species of ''Hymenocallis'' (Amaryllidaceae) in the Florida Panhandle. Novon 4:396-399.
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godfreyi Endemic flora of Florida Plants described in 1994 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Amaryllidaceae-stub