Dear Mary Sue, that is most likely Ornithogalum narbonense L. In Ornithogalum narbonense L. the bracts should be twice as long as the flower buds. Unfortunately I cannot check this character on the photo. The other Ornithogalum with a similar habit indigenous to southern France is O. pyrenaicum with greenish (not pure white flowers inside). What is Lauw de Jager's place name? More than half a century ago I studied for a year phytosociology in the Languedoc with a peak knowledge of more than 2000 spp. of flowering plants and some hundred spp. of mosses and lichens. Best wishes Dietrich Am 12.06.2012 16:05, schrieb Mary Sue Ittner: > Lauw de Jager would like help identifying this plant growing in a > neighbor's yard in southern France for over 20 years. It flowers in > May. He thinks it is an Ornithogalum, but would like help with a > species name. He says it is not O umbellatum, not O.magnum. I've > added it to the wiki Mystery Bulbs page: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/