Pink "Naked Lady" Flowers

[LillyBelle]

A few years ago, when I lived in a different home, I had these flowers come up randomly that I had not planted. They looked somewhat like light pink colored lilies but the blooms were turned downward. There were no leaves at all on the plants and they were straight, green, narrow stalks.
I have since seen these growing along side the road in different areas and would love to be able to plant some on our property we live on now. My neighbor told me they were called Naked Lady flowers because they do not have any leaves. Do any of you know what these are and what they are actually called? I have not been able to find them anywhere.

 

[ChanellG]

Um... what flowers? Had you intended to share a photo or are you asking if anyone knows about naked ladies? In the case of the latter, there is a pink lily commonly referred to as naked lady.

 

[LillyBelle]

Yes, I was wondering if that was actually what they were called and if they were a type of lily. I didn't know if that was the actual name of them because my neighbor said she had always heard them called that, but wasn't sure if that was the actual name of them. They sure are pretty though.

 

[ChanellG]

They were introduced to me as naked lady. Mine have yet to bloom, I suppose they were immature when I received them (maybe 2 years ago). I have seen them referenced in a gardening book, but until now only known them as naked ladies. A google search just now showed they are also known as Belladonna.

 

[IcyBC]

They be wild flowers of some sorts and the name is very interesting! Too bad you didn't have any pictures to show us since they were at your old house. I will look them up on Google then and this is what I found: http://plantlust.com/plants/amaryllis-belladonna/

 

[Cbunner94]

Hi! Naked Lady flowers are a type of Lily like you assumed. They're close to the Surprise Lilly, Pop Up Lilly, or Resurrection Lilly. They do grow from a bulb. They prefer sun and are unique in the way they bloom before foliage appears.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

The Naked Ladies I've seen have foliage that shoots up in early Spring (right now) and the blooms won't happen until much later, long after the foliage has died off.

Be sure to filter your searches if you want to search images of this plant, or the naked ladies you see may not be what you were looking for!

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Frilly Pink Beauties

 

[DirtMechanic]

For some reason around these parts the red spider lily has been called a naked lady

 

[Owdboggy]

Colchicums are also called Naked Ladies. They flower now and get their leaves in Spring. There are also a fair number of Crocus which flower now as well.

 

[Marck]

'Naked Ladies' is a common name wide applied and thus prone to cause confusion. Numerous bulbous plants that produce their flowers (ladies) in the absence of leaves (naked) are thus so called.

An incomplete list would include: x Amarygia spp., x Amarine spp., Amaryllis belladonna, Brunsvigia spp. Nerine spp., Lycoris radiata, Lycoris squamigera, Colchicum spp., etc.

The listed plants are all in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), with the exception of Colchicum (Colchicaceae).

Hippeastrum spp. could probably be called naked ladies as well, though I found no record of this. However they are prone to cause anotheer confusion as Hippeastrum are what many people refer to by the common name 'Amaryllis'!

 

[Owdboggy]

The trouble with calling plants by 'common names' instead of the correct Botanical ones.