Help to identify garden pop-ups

[bepplen]

Please help with these*plants in my sun garden.

Barb E.

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[Newt]

Hi Barb,

What a beautiful color!* It looks like a member of the Amaranthus or Lily family.* I can't quite tell from the picture if that is an umbel of flowers at the top of the stem or if each flower has it's own stem.*

Could it be a variety of Triteleia?
http://images.google.com/images?um=1...=Search+Images
http://brentandbeckysbulbs.com/summe...iew/?sku=97-02

How about Brodiaea of the same family?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...h+Images&gbv=2
http://www.birdmom.net/WildflowersPu...gant6-7-05.jpg

Chionodoxa also comes to mind but I can't see the leaves of yours.
http://www.bellewood-gardens.com/Bel...0sardensis.jpg

What is your hardiness zone and country/state?

Newt

[bepplen]

I checked all those plants and they don't fit. The stalk and first leaves look like the allium family, and the flower pod is formed like the tops of allium types. This plant doesn't fit any plant I can find in all 1,000 pages I have checked in my plant encyclopedias!!! I am in zone 5 in Illinois

[bepplen]

Here is a better pic of the whole plant and how the flowers start out opening.......

[bepplen]

Newt,

Thank you for the heads up on the Triteleia. I went back in my garden archives and saw that these were put into the garden the first year (3yrs ago) we started planting and they never came up until now.* How strange is that. LOL Thank you so much for your help and I'm sorry I doubted you!!!!*

Barb E.

[Newt]

Wow, how cool is that?* Don't fret about doubting me, I'm just glad you know what they are.* You may have planted them a bit too deep and it's taken this much time for them to rise enough to bloom.* Then again, they may have been too immature to do much until now.* Whatever the reason, they're lovely!*

Thanks for getting back to me as I was just starting to search again.* You saved me alot of time!*
Newt