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Title: ID needed for this member of lily family
Post by: Maggi Young on January 15, 2015, 01:49:16 PM: This seems to be in the lily family - looks familiar - but what is it?
It is growing enthusiastically in a continental garden.

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Title: Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
Post by: jshields on January 15, 2015, 02:17:05 PM: Because of the umbel form of the inflorescence, it is definitely not a member of the Liliaceae. I would guess it's in the Amaryllidaceae, but I'd need better looks at the insides of the flowers to say more.

Jim
Title: Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
Post by: Pauli on January 15, 2015, 02:17:33 PM: Nothoscordum bivalve ?????
Title: Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
Post by: Maggi Young on January 15, 2015, 02:27:50 PM: I think you may be on the right track, Herbert, thank you.

( I was meaning liliaceae, sensu latu - we're supposed to do that now, I think? ::) :-X :-\ )

Herbert asked the same question about a similar plant! http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12341.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12341.0) and since the plant here was also flowering in autumn, I think perhaps Oron's suggestion of Nothoscordum bivalve var nanum is a good one.

This link goes to HansJ's pix of N. bivalve in spring
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5120.msg146464#msg146464 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5120.msg146464#msg146464)

This plant, flowering in November in Texas : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8145.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8145.0) was ID's as N. bivalve.