''Hymenocallis palmeri'' is a plant in the family

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 ...

.Sereno Watson, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 14: 301. 1879, ''Hymenocallis palmeri''
Common name is alligator-lily. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

, found in cypress swamps, wet meadows, open pine woodlands and wet roadsides.Flora of North America vol 26, p 291.
/ref> ''Hymenocallis palmeri'' produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 4 cm across. Leaves are bluish green, up to 65 cm long and 10 mm across. Umbels have only 1 or 2 flowers, if 2 then opening one at a time. Flowers are erect, funnel-shaped, white with a greenish eye in the center and teeth along the margins of the staminal corona. Seeds are green, egg-shaped, up to 20 mm in diameter.Sereno Watson, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 14: 301. 1879, ''Hymenocallis humilis''

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q5905699 palmeri Endemic flora of Florida Plants described in 1879 Flora without expected TNC conservation status