48 PONTEDERIACEAE 



Funkia — Dav Lily 



(Named for Funck, a German botanist) 

 ii plants with trumpet-shaped flowers 



1. Flowers white, fragrant p. subcorddta 



2. Flowers bluish 



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



b. Leaves narrow ovate to lanceolate ; flowers pale lilac /'. lanciJSlia 



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. umbelldtus 



Kniphofia — Red-hot Poker 

 (Named for Kniphof, a German botanist) 

 Half-hardy plant with an elongated spike of tubular scarlet and yellow flowers A*, aloides 



Chlorophytum 



(Gr. chloros, 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 T. uniflSra 



Allium — Onion 

 (Lat. name of the onion) 

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



Ornithogalum 



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



1. Flowers over 2 cm. across, white with a black pistil O. ardbicum 



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 5. sibirica 



Hyacinthus — Hyacinth 



(The Greek name) 

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



dense raceme //. 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 ./. 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. 



