Name:
Lycoris aurea (Hurricane lily, yellow)
Sun:
Full sun or part shade
Bloom time:
Blooms September
Comments:
Handsome strap shaped leaves emerge after the flowers and last all winter. The leaves die down in the spring and there is no sign of the plant all summer until the flowers appear again in September. Henrietta Jinright saw these flowers blooming in a yard in Monticello in 1947. She stopped and asked the lady if she could have a start of them. Her daughter-in-law Betty Jinright has shared the bulbs all over Thomasville in the 60 years since then.