Pink rain lily
റോസ് ലില്ലിগোলাপী ঘাস ফুল
Zephyranthes rosea Lindl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 18 cm
- wide
- 15 cm
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Cuban zephyrlily
Formerly Amaryllis carnea, Atamasco rosea, Hippeastrum carneum, Zephyranthes carnea
When it flowers
Flowers March to January in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Colombia to PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Green Thumb Nursery, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 20 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 15 cmRead from Green Thumb Nursery, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Green Thumb Nursery, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from Green Thumb Nursery, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- lirio rosa de la lluvia, leli de san jose, Duende rojo
- Japanese
- コサフランモドキ
- Chinese (China)
- 小韭兰, 玫瑰葱莲, 玫瑰风雨兰
- Chinese
- 玫瑰蔥蓮, 小韭蘭, 小韭兰
- Russian
- Зефирантес розовый
- German
- Rosafarbene Zephirblume
- Slovak
- zefyrovka ružová
- Turkish
- Zıpçıktı
- Bangla
- গোলাপী ঘাস ফুল
- Malayalam
- റോസ് ലില്ലി
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Green Thumb Nursery, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Zephyranthes rosea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.