Re: What is this flower?
Started by villandra at 04-08-2007 11:22 PM. Topic has 1 replies.
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 04-08-2007, 11:22 PM
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villandra
Joined on 04-09-2007
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My mother in law and I would like to know what wildflower this is, that we
passed by the side of the road tonight near Lago Vista, in the hill country
northwest of Austin.
A photo is attached. Have four photos; this is the best comprehensive one.
The flower and stalk is seven inches long, with a single head of very small
pale pink-purple flowerets, that ahve six sharp-looking petals each around
an inside the same color and several stamens. The flowers have a pleasant
scent like a florist's shop. The stalks each have two or three grass-like
leaves. There was another stalk with two regular leaves enar the base with
three lobes each, but I don't know if it was actually part of the same
plant. They had shriveled to nothing by the time I got home.
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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04-09-2007, 9:53 AM
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RichO
Joined on 02-15-2005
San Antonio, TX
Posts 637
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From what I can tell from the photo, it looks like wild onion (Allium canadense) or wild garlic (Allium Drummondii). Based on color is a closer match to wild garlic which varies from white to pink to purple-red, but the color of wild onion can vary from white to pink as well. There is also some differences in the use of the common names for these two plants.
See if this photo is what you think the flower is:
http://wildflower.utexas.edu/gallery/result.php?id_image=4433
RichO
Hunting Texas Wildflowers
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