Lycoris radiata(L'Hér.) Herb.

red spider lily

WFO wfo-0000683573 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lycoris radiata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. a Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-30 / obs. 161448114
Lycoris radiata, photographed by Jaime González
fig. b Jaime González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159624522
Lycoris radiata, photographed by Isabel Retiz
fig. c Isabel Retiz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159628825
Lycoris radiata, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. d mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158776986
Lycoris radiata, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. e WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159152526
Lycoris radiata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. f Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159901533
Lycoris radiata, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. g mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158777429
Lycoris radiata, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. h mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158775419

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Flowering n = 1,095 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 1,095 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Amaryllis radiata L'Hér.
  • Lycoris radiata f. bicolor N.Yonez.
  • Lycoris radiata var. kazukoana N.Yonez.
  • Lycoris radiata var. pumila Grey
  • Lycoris radiata var. radiata
  • Lycoris radiata var. terraccianii Dammann
  • Lycoris terracianii Hort.Dammann.
  • Nerine japonica Miq.
  • Nerine radiata (L'Hér.) Sweet
  • Orexis radiata (L'Hér.) Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.