From: totototo@telus.net
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:59:55 -0700
Subject: [pbs] Another mystery plant for identification

While driving around viewing the plantings of the filthy rich yesterday, my eye
was caught by a plant I've never seen before.

Inflorescence organized like that of bluebells (Endymion). Individual flowers
white, campanulate, hanging down, white with a narrow green stripe down the
center of each petal. Foliage with slightly onion-y scent, color a clear mid-
green (quite pretty, in fact), flat, keeled on the reverse. Plants abt 15" (35-
40 cm) tall.

It's planted in a waste area in under Douglas firs, but is thriving and is
clearly pretty invasive. Though pretty, bitter experience told me not to dig
any up and bring it home, lest I have years of sorrow trying to extirpate it.

Afterwards, while dozing before going to sleep, I realized what it reminded me
of: that horror, Nothoscordum inodorum, though my first reaction on seeing that
green stripe was "ornithogalum".

Sound familiar to anyone?