I'd like to join Max in the praise of this book Jane edited. It's one of the books I regularly consult. It's divided in sections written by 13 contributors, experts on either a genus or an area. So the treatment is slightly different depending on who wrote each section. Reading the list of contributors you will recognize many of the names as some of these people have written other books, published articles, or given talks. Sadly even though this book was published in 2001, some of the contributors are no longer alive. It's a wonderful combination of botanical information written in language that doesn't require having several dictionaries by your side so you can understand what has been written (if you are a gardener, not a botanist or a taxonomist) and also has helpful cultivation information. You don't always get both. And I know of no other book that pulls this all together for bulbs native to North America. Sure I would have liked to have had more pictures and it would have been nice to have pictures with the plants, but they needed to publish the book at a price that was low enough that it would sell. Contents: Foreword -- Brian Mathew Introduction -- Jane McGary The Genus Allium -- Mark McDonough, Jim Robinnett, and Georgie Robinett Amaryllidaceae of North America -- Alan W. Meerow The Brodiaea Alliance: Bloomeria, Brodiaea, Dichelostemma, and Triteleia -- Parker Sanderson and Jane McGary The Genus Calochortus -- Frank Callahan The Genus Erythronium -- Molly M. Grothaus The Genus Fritillaria -- David King Irids of the Southeast -- Michael E. Chelednik The Genus Lilium -- Edward Austin McRae Bulbs of the Northwest -- Loren Russell Bulbs of the Southwest -- Mary Irish Bulbs of Eastern North America -- C. Colston Burrell Looking up the bulb Jay just added to the wiki, Amianthium muscaetoxicum, you find a half page written about it in this book describing the states of the USA where it is found, the habitat it is found in, what it looks like, and when it blooms. It then describes how to grow it, what plants might make good companions to plant with it and how to propagate it. Jay and I noticed that different sources spell the species name differently, but this one conforms to the one he used as the first one on the wiki. Mary Sue