Descriptive Flora 



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Nothoscordium bivalve (L.) Britton. Crow Poison. False Garlic. 

 (Nothoscordium striatum Jacq.) 



Plants with a tuft of narrow, thick, shiny green leaves 

 2 — 10" long, coming from a membranous-coated, onion-like bulb, 

 ( % to %" long) several inches below the surface of the ground, 

 Flowers white, in an erect umbel that terminates a slender^ 

 round-stemmed, flower stalk, 5 — 12" long and commonly over- 

 topping the leaves. Sepals and petals 3 each, alike in size and 

 color, and about %" long. Stamens 6. Ovary 3-lobed y at the 

 base of the perianth. Similar to the Wild Onion, but leaves and 

 bulb are wdthout the onion scent and the flowers are fewer r 

 somewhat larger, over across when wide open, white with 

 greenish yellow centers, (never turning pink) and on pedicels 

 twice as long. Common in neglected lawns and waste places. 

 February, March and April and often again as late as November, 

 depending on the rainfall. 



Androstephium coeruleum (Scheele) Greene. Wild Hyacinth. 

 (Androstephium violaceum Torr.) 



Low plants growing from membranous-coated, flattened r 

 somewhat bowl-shaped bulbs, usually several inches below the 

 surface of the ground. Leaves clustered at the ground, grass- 

 like, thick, almost fleshy, narrow, 6 — 10" long, usually longer 

 than the flower stalk. Flowers blue to violet, in clusters of 2 to 6 

 at the end of a short flower stalk, strongly resembling a culti- 

 vated hyacinth. Petals and sepals 3 each, fleshy, all alike in size 

 and color, united into a narrow tube, irregularly toothed at the 

 top and with the six anthers attached to the inner wall. Blossoms 

 in February, March and April. On poor, dry, rocky slopes'. 

 Rare. Differs from Quamasia hyacinthina in the leaves usually 

 being longer than the flower stalk. 



LILIACEAE. Lily Family, In Small's Flam, 

 Qummasia Jiyacinthina (Raf.) Britton. False Hyacinth. 



(Camassia fraseri Torr.) 



Plants 6 to 18" high, growing from edible bulbs, often 

 buried in the ground as deep as 6". Leaves few, grass-like, long:. 



