This is the Easter season, during which we celebrate Jesus’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. So, I thought we could look at some plants that have the word resurrection in their name. There is a fern native to the United States commonly called the resurrection fern; a spike moss from the Chihuahuan Desert is commonly called the resurrection plant; and there is a lily sometimes called the resurrection lily. I am going to take them in reverse order.
The lily is also called the surprise lily, magic lily, and the naked lady lily, among other names. You may not want to have “naked lady” in your search history, so botanists call it Lycoris squamigera. It is in the amaryllis family. In the spring, it has leaves that look like daffodil leaves. The leaves die after a couple of months, and then in August, pink flower stalks shoot up out of the ground with clusters of pink flowers. It blooms nakedly because there are no leaves when there are flowers.
