Nothoscordum inodorum
Antennaria@aol.com (Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:24:12 PST)

In a message dated 1/9/05 10:58:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org writes:
From: "Rodger Whitlock" <totototo@pacificcoast.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Nothoscordum inodorum

There are two very weedy species, N. inodorum and N. bivalve. Nothoscordum
inodorum is intensely fragrant, almost obnoxiously so. Perhaps what you have
is bivalve. I have a single pot of inodorum, which throws up an occassional
flower, and a pot of a rare pink-flowered form of bivalve, which has never
flowered and is dwindling. It's funny, because when I lived in Seattle, Washington
(Pacific Northwest USA), not too far from British Columbia, Canada, there
were a whole host of plants that I'd never consider to be weedy invaders back in
much-colder New England (Massachusetts), but were indeed very weedy there
given the 2-3 incremental drop in cold severity. There are a whole bunch of
plants that I could name in my New England garden that are much more insidiously
invasive than N. inodorum. It's a plant that's not worth defending, even in
it's highly perfumed flowers, because the stems are tall and lanky, the flowers
small and not showy, and the plant is otherwise not very attractive, that it
should be shunned and better plants should be grown.

Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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