One of the most iconic plants of the Cahaba River is the Cahaba lily, an aquatic flowering plant which grows only in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. A type of spiderlily belonging to the amaryllis family, the Cahaba lily is noted for the striking beauty …

Hymenocallis coronaria, commonly known as the Cahaba lily, shoal lily, or shoals spider-lily, is an aquatic, perennial flowering plant species of the genus Hymenocallis.

May 19, 2022 · The lily has distinctive, white three-inch-wide flowers that are sure to catch your eye, and they usually bloom from around Mother’s Day to Father’s Day every year, although some years they ...

Oct 19, 2023 · A type of spiderlily belonging to the amaryllis family, the Cahaba lily is noted for the striking beauty of its three-inch-wide white flowers. The lily requires a very specialized habitat—swift-flowing water over rocks and lots of sun—and thus is restricted to shoal areas at or above the fall line.

We’ll tell you how to see the Cahaba lily blooms at Hargrove Shoals and why they are essential to Alabama. The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest stand of Cahaba lilies in the world at Hargrove Shoals.

We’ll tell you how to see the Cahaba lily blooms at Hargrove Shoals and why they are essential to Alabama. The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest stand of Cahaba lilies in the world at Hargrove Shoals.

And then there’s the Cahaba lily, or shoal lily, or shoals spider-lily, the rare, though not federally threatened or endangered, flower that prompted 18th century naturalist William Bartram to gush that “nothing in vegetable nature was more pleasing.”

The 190-mile-long Cahaba River is home to many rare species, some of which were thought to be extinct. The showy Cahaba lily (at Halfmile Shoals) thrives in clean, clear, rapidly flowing water.

The Cahaba lily (Hymenocallis coronaria) is a type of spider lily native to sunny, fast-flowing shoals in the Cahaba, Black Warrior, Coosa, Tallapoosa and Chattahoochie River systems in Alabama and to a few rivers in Georgia and South Carolina.

The Cahaba lily, named for the Cahaba River, is an aquatic plant native to the major river systems of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. In Alabama, its best-known natural habitat is the shoals of the Cahaba River. The lily is known for the striking beauty of its three-inch-wide white flowers.