Unknown bulb

[Palustris]

The backs of the petals have a green stripe down them, though you cannot see it in this picture. Flowering now. A name anyone?
TIA.

[Pauli]

Ornithogalum ?

[art600]

I agree

[Palustris]

Thanks. Now for the interesting bit. The bulbs are actually growing in the roadside verge outside our garden, on the other side of the road. There are more clumps a good fifty yards further down the lane. How did they get there? It must be well over fifty yards to the ones which are growing in the garden and which I cannot ever remember producing seed pods. No other gardens nearby either.

[Brianm]

I beleive this to be Ornithogalum umbellatum which I have growing in the garden. If I coiuld figure out how to do it I would send you a picture I took on 26/5/15 to allow you to compare. However selecting an image only seems to put up a set of braces to insert something. If you send me your e-mail address I will send you a couple of pictures to allow you to check . incidentally I live in Dunoon in Argyll.

Regards

Brian Madden
brian_madden@btinternet.com 

[johnw]

Brian  - Don't use the insert image function but simply go below your post and click attachments, then click attach and go from there.  Simple as can be after the initial success, make sure the size is right.

john

click my attachment to enlarge.......

[Hoy]

Here is Ornithogalum umbellatum growing around here.

[Brianm]

Thanks John - I have resized file(second attempt - first was above limit).

Hopefully it is here this time.

[Palustris]

Looks like it, but would love to know how it got into the verge.

[johnralphcarpenter]

It grows wild in the UK. Here it is on Hothfield National Nature Reserve in Kent.

[JohnnyD]

It grows wild in our garden too!!!!!!!!!!!!
JohnnyD

[Palustris]

Are the seeds spread by ants? That might explain how it got from well inside our garden to across the road. Cyclamen have made that leap as well.