Re: Can you help identify this wild bulb?

Invasive is the word!  I sifted a 2' by 7' patch in a bed the summer before
last, removing 3 large deli-containers worth of small to minute bulbs.
Last year, the growth from what I'd missed was of much higher quality and
density than the grass in my lawn!  Looked wonderful with Easter eggs
sitting in it, and the flowers are charming, opening by day and closing at
night.  But they do take over.  An irony is that my local nursery sells
these bulbs at the same price per dozen as scilla, chionodoxa and other
minor bulbs.

At a garden tour last year at Winterthur, an acquaintance from the south
asked me to send her some bulbs in the fall; I warned her that she'd
probably hate me forever.  In the meantime, I misplaced her address.  This
spring, I am attending another event of the same organization, and will dig
up some turf of this bulb in case she comes.

  


>That star of Bethlehem is Ornithogalum umbellatum and it is INCREDIBLY
>invasive.  It spreads by bulb and seed and maybe black magic.  I don't mind
>the meadow look in my lawn so I don't get too excited, but if you're a
purist,
>get rid of that clump while you have the chance.
>
>Vivien
>Massachusetts, zone 6

Wyn Achenbaum
Stamford, CT, 10 miles from Long Island Sound
Zone 6
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