WEST BLOCTON, Ala.—“The lilies have bloomed this season if you know where to go.” It’s a line in Birmingham band I Declare’s newly released song “Cahaba,” and it’s the truth. At the recent Cahaba Lily ...

A film crew working on a documentary for public television has arrived in Birmingham to film day and night in Bibb County, south of Birmingham, hoping to capture a rare water lily as it flowers and is ...

Though the Cahaba lily, also known as the shoals spiderlily, once grew throughout the Southeast, it's now restricted to about 70 stands. A quarter of the stands are in the Cahaba River, and one of the ...