I'm not familiar enough with this bulb to call it anything other than beautiful! Great photo, HoustonPat!

I THINK you have Hymenocallis, Festalis. You can google it and look at pictures. According to Scott Ogden, you need to lift this bulb and reset it every year in well manured soil to prevent it from splitting into non blooming sizes.

It surely is beautiful. I got one last year. Hope mine is as nice.

I don't mean to sound dumb, but what does "noid" mean? I am of the pre-tech generation, you see. :)

Thanks for the input. I think you're right Donna. I didn't know about lifting them. I could never figure why mine never rebloomed. First time for me to use the term NOID which I understand means NO IDentity.

I am also of the traditional spelling generation. :) Thanks for the translation!

I love these!!! Not sure what Scott Ogden is talking about though.....I have had these for quite a few years and the momma sure does produce a ton of babies, but it is NOT at the expense of momma by any stretch of anyones imagination. I have maybe 30 of them in a huge tub that have not been replanted in years.....I get many blooms every year and also from the other large tubs that have not quite so many.....I try to not replant because then you have to try and figure out what to do with the hundreds of babies.....I started with 2 of these maybe 7 years ago and have easily 200 of them now and sold/gave away maybe 100 over that time frame....they are like little bunnies, but pretty ones for sure :o) Dan

Very interesting. Maybe because your garden gets more cold? I will be keeping a close eye on mind to see what happens. You're right about multiplying. I put my one bulb in the ground weeks after it should have been planted last year (a gift) and it didn't even come up. Now it's spring, and there are four. Gotta love it.