Magic Lily

You're welcome. Project Noah is awesome - I have learned so much already!

We were close Alice. It is in the same family as Amaryllis, the Amaryllidaceae family. Thanks for the ID Beth!

Thanks for the spotting - and the ID! I need to go and edit a spotting that I misidentified. Much appreciated!

This looks remarkably like August Lily or Magic Lily, Lycoris Squamigera.

I just noticed, too, that there are auxiliary blooms on bracts under the open flower shown (rather like irises bloom). Amaryllis flowers don't branch like this. As for coloration, I have several day lilies and just the ones I have range in color from light yellow to deep bronzey-wine and I've seen others of many different colors. I would say the id of some type of day lily is the more correct.

Longmustache: do you know if there were leaves growing before the flowers? Amaryllis tends to leaf first, the leaves die down, then the flowers are produced.

Jean--I'm doing some more research. The only other possibility is Hippeastrum, but that plant tends to have leaves with the bloom and this one does not.

Gee... We have a native bella donna lily here in Sonoma County, Northern CA and the petals don't look anything like this. Petals are most markedly pointed (triangular) without the "notches" on the tip like these have. The petals also go all the way around the calyx rather than "missing" one as these do. Possibly this is an entirely different species than I'm very used to seeing!

You are correct Alice. I think it is belladonna lily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis

Looks like a type of Amaryllis.