Sat 25 Feb 2012
If it’s the end of February it must be time for my annual ode to the Star flower (Ipheion uniflorum), making its late February appearance in a patch under the wooden handrail off the front steps:
Thanks to my friend David who identified this flower for me when I posted about it last year.


There are a few varieties of it:
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Tristagma#uniflorum
Notice botanists want it to be a different genus than the one suggested.
Even though it has a garlicy smell as for as I can discern, no one advocates using it or eating it. However it blends well into grasses and you can find them in lawns.