Thanks to everyone who
offered input. This has been identified as a daffodil (genus
Narcissus), with code 8W-W, possibly "Silver chimes."
I have little difficulty recognizing
wildflowers, but I know little about commercial plants, and I suspect
this is one of those. A little background... This is our
seventh spring here at this house. For the first three or four
years, my husband kept a steep bank mowed, but a few years ago, I told
him to let it go, that I would plant it in wildflowers. It has
done beautifully. It's a dry bank, so I stayed with drought
resistant flowers such as asters, sedum, butterflyweed, gayfeather, a
bunch of DYC's and the like. In addition, anything that had to
be thinned from other beds went into the bank with the instructions to
"live or die." Most did live.
Last year I noticed the above plant.
It was just leaves, nothing more, three flat ones, similar to
daffodils, but not quite the same. They came up straight, then
laid flat on the ground for a month or so, and then died back.
This spring, it came up again, but this time with four leaves, which,
again, laid down on the ground. But this time, a flower stalk
began coming out of the base. The plant has characteristics of
both daffodils and amaryllis. The stalk is about 8" tall and the
flower head looks very similar to an amaryllis with a sheath around
multiple buds on a single stalk. There are seven flower buds
inside the sheath, but the flowers themselves look far more like
daffodils than amaryllis. They seem to be blooming in sequence.
The above pictures show only one open, but now there are three.
I noticed yet another one of these plants this morning. It has
three leaves and the beginnings of a flower stalk. If anyone
knows what this is, please
email me
with a botanical name. I would really appreciate knowing more
about this plant. It's a gorgeous flower and I'd like to move it
to a more hospitable location, but I want to know more about it before
I do anything like that. Additional note:
The opened flowers are 2" across and have no odor. The flower
stalk is oval with ridges on opposite sides. |
