Mary Sue, let's try to keep the Xerophyllum idea going. I have images of the eastern species, Xerophyllum asphodeloides. I'm not sure where they are right now - they are not in my slide collection and they are not among the images taken with my current digital camera. They must be in the no-mans land of images taken with my first digital camera. And that no-mans land is in a computer I have not turned on for several years. I'll try to get over to the nearest Xerophyllum site I know (about an hour and a half west of where I live) this summer to get images. These are totally cool plants. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7 where Crocus pallasii was wide open in the heat today. My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/