48 PONTEDERIACEAE 



Funkia — Day Lily 



(Named for Funck, a German botanist) 

 Garden plants with trumpet-shaped flowers 



1. Flowers white, fragrant F. subcorddia 



2. Flowers bluish 



a. Leaves broad ovate ; flowers deep blue F. ovdta 



b. Leaves narrow ovate to lanceolate ; flowers pale lilac F. lancifolia 



Convallaria — Lily-of-the-valley 



(Lat. convallis, a deep valley) 

 Spring-blooming hardy plant with racemes of fragrant bell-shaped flowers ; 



often forced for winter blooming C. majdlis 



Agapanthus 



(Gr. agape, love, anthos, flower) 

 Large half-hardy pot plant with umbels of blue or white trumpet-shaped 

 flowers A. umbelldius 



Kniphofia — Red-hot Poker 



(Named for Kniphof, a German botanist) 

 Half-hardy plant with an elongated spike of tubular scarlet and yellow flowers K. aloides 



Chlorophytum 



(Gr. ehloros, green, phyton, plant) 

 Pot plant with stolons, and loose panicles of white flowers C. datum 



Tritelia 



(Gr tri-, three, teleos, complete) 

 Bulbous plant with solitary whitish flowers, spring-blooming but forced in 



late winter 7. umflora 



Allium — Onion 



(Lat. name of the onion) 

 Bulbous plant with umbels of small white flowers, often forced in greenhouses A. neapolildmim 



Ornithogalum 



(Gr. ornis, ornithos, bird, gala, milk) 



1. Flowers over 2 cm. across, white with a black pistil O. ardb'uum 



2. Flowers less than 2 cm. across, white with green stripes O. cauddtum 



Scilla 



(Lat. scilla, Gr. skilla, sea-onion) 

 Very early spring-blooming bulb, sometimes forced ; flowers bright blue S. sibirica 



Hvacinthus — Hyacinth 



(The Greek name) 

 Spring-blooming bulbous plant, often forced in winter; fragrant flowers in a 



dense raceme II. orientdlis 



Colchicum 



(Greek name of some poisonous plant) 

 flowers in autumn without leaves or stems, pink-purple, crocus-like C. autumndle 



Aspidistra 



Pot plant with large leathery lanceolate leaves (sometimes variegated) from 

 a creeping rootstock ; flowers fleshy, almost concealed in the earth, their 

 parts in 4's A. lurida 



Pontederiaceae — Pickerel -weed Family 



Aquatic and marsh plants; flower clusters subtended by leaf-like spathes ; sepals 3, petals 3, 

 stamens 6, pistil 1, ovary 3-celled or 1-celled; flower syncarpous, sympetalous, hypogynous, irregular; 

 sepals and petals similar, united, and forming a 2-lipped perianth. 



