Pancratium maritimumL.

Sea Daffodil

WFO wfo-0000729569 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-21 / obs. 189655369
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by carnifex
fig. b carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202150990
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. c Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202974450
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189719771
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. e Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187300709
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. f Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181170210
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. g Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186230046
Pancratium maritimum, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. h Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187745771

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Flowering n = 2,433 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 2,433 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 13 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.

  • Hymenocallis caroliniana (L.) Herb.
  • Hymenocallis lacera Salisb.
  • Hymenocallis maritima (L.) M.Roem.
  • Hymenocallis ruizii M.Roem.
  • Pancratium abchasicum Regel
  • Pancratium aegyptiacum M.Roem.
  • Pancratium angustifolium Lojac.
  • Pancratium angustifolium M.Roem.
  • Pancratium barcinonense Sennen
  • Pancratium carolinianum L.
  • Pancratium linosae Soldano & F.Conti
  • Pancratium mirennae Mattei
  • Scilla parva Garsault

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.