Crocus-like plants with bulbs about 2 cm wide. Leaves rush-like, stiff and thick to about 30 cm long, 3-5 mm wide. Flowering stem 15-20 cm long. Spathe about 2.5 cm long, tubular in lower half. Flowers white, often tinted pink outside, 4-5 cm long and without a tube, the lobes spreading; summer to autumn. Style shorter than the stamens. Flower stalk about 1.5 cm long.
Argentina, Uruguay
Zephyranthes 'Ajax' has cream-coloured flowers and is a hybrid (Z. candida × Z. citrina).
Other warmer climate species from the Caribbean region are occasionally grown including: Z. citrina Bak., Z. flavissima Ravenna and Z. grandiflora Lindl.
Source: (2005). Narcissus. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
