Another ID please

steveTu

Must be my month for finding things I've never seen before. Just out cutting the grass (or should I say, kicking up some dust - it's still that dry even after the recent storms) - and I saw this thing in amongst some viburnums. It stands about 3" high off a single stem.

The area where it is growing was largely replanted three years or so back with a mix of acers and viburnums - and it wasn't there before and I don't recall it since. I may have thought it was a weed (is it?) before and pulled it up before it flowered.....!

Palustris

Brodiaea laxa probably in the form Queen Fabiola. Lot of name changes around this genus so it may be called something else now.

josusa47

It's now called Triteileia laxa.  Isn't it a little beauty?  I have one little tuft of it in my garden, I saved seed last year and I think I have a couple of them growing, but it might just be grass, or the ineradicable grape hyacinth, it's hard to tell them apart.

steveTu

Both - thanks. Just looked up the Triteleia laxa and that looks like it.

I think the best thing is coming across these plants that I never knew we had - hopefully I'll get some from the seeds and grow some more. I've just read that the leaves can look like grass - so I've probably seen that and pulled it up.

Lovely little flower though eh?

Palustris

Had it in our last garden and it seeded all over the place and because we also planted the white version of it we got a lot of slightly different colours. Also comes in yellow.

dappledshade

That really is very pretty.