Another two mystery plants

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by NatalieAE2001, Apr 16, 2006.

  1. NatalieAE2001

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    I have two more mystery plants in my flowerbeds and am hoping for help identifying them.

    Plant 1:
    This looks like a grass, but the leaves feel very thick and rubbery. They grow small white, star-shaped flowers that have 5 or 6 petals, I can't remember which. They last a couple weeks. This plant reaches about 6 inches in height at full growth. These plants grow from a tiny bulb, no larger then a dime in diameter.

    Plant 2:
    These plants reach about a foot and a half in height, and the flowers are a bit hard to describe, but are many petaled. The petals are almost like a dandelion, but squished together into a cone or trumpet shaped flower that lasts only a few days. The flowers are yellow.
     

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    The first is probably an Ornithogalum umbellatum
    The second Narcissus (Daffodil)
     
  3. NatalieAE2001

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    I googled the star-of-bethleham and you are right! I was glad to find out what those are.

    The second plant definitely isn't a daffodil though, unless there is another shape variation on the standard. These plants have many many many petals in a compact shape. The flower is not "hollow" in the middle like a tulip or daffodil. The whole trumpet shape is filled with petals.
     
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    Well.... it *might* be the double daffodil, along the lines of the Full House varient, or like this one: http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/38085/ , but I don't remember the flower enough to say for sure. Thanks for the links!
     
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    no problem at all. :)
     

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