These lilies sprung up just in time for the weekend cold snap.
![[One and two Treat's Rain Lilies @ OPF 2023-02-18]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-02-18--rain-lilies/many.jpg)
One and two Treat’s Rain Lilies @ OPF 2023-02-18
Treat’s rain lily, Zephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae,
is a special variety that mostly grows in counties on either side of the GA-FL line.
I hear there are also some in Louisiana and Alabama. Continue reading
A sure sign of spring: Treat’s rain lily.
Zephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae
these days is classified as an amaryllis.
This is a special native variety of Atamasco lily, Zephyranthes atamasca, that only grows in counties on either side of the GA-FL line, plus maybe some in Alabama.
According to Flora of North America (eFloras.org), Continue reading
Update 2024-06-10:
Yellow Dog’s rosemallow, three years later 2024-06-09
On our daily walk to the field, Yellow Dog encountered the first Swamp Rosemallow of the year,
and perhaps the last Treat’s Rain Lily, while the Beautyberry remains in bloom.
Four in a row:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 April 2013.
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The first rain lily I saw this year.
A small lily that grows only in counties along the Georgia-Florida border,
and maybe in a few in Alabama: Treat’s Rain Lily, Zephyranthes atamasca
var. treateiae.
These days it’s classified as an amaryllis.
-jsq
They usually bloom in March and April, but the rain a week ago started these
blooming in July.
This one even looks confused:
Here’s a more normal-looking specimen:
These are not your average lily.
They only grow in counties in south Georgia and north Florida
along the state line,
and maybe a few counties in Alabama.
They’re
Treat’s rain lily, Zephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae.
It’s actually an amaryllis.
You may know them as “those lilies you see in the ditch by the road.”
More pictures in the
flickr set.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
Also
pictures from previous years.
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You may know these as Easter lilies, or “those lilies that grow in the ditches by the road in the spring.”
It turns out their real name is Treat’s Rain Lily,
and they are a native of south Georgia and north Florida,
plus a bit of Alabama, and don’t grow anywhere else.
We’ve seen them in Georgia counties along the Florida border
as far west as Cairo, but not any farther north.
Here’s
much more about these lilies.
They really like where we burned this spring in the woods:
The red flags mark where we transplanted some longleaf pine seedlings.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 2-3 April 2010, Lowndes County, Georgia.
![[Treat's rain lily]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-02-25--rain-lily/20220225_165340.jpg)
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