Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 16., 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
It's bound to be one of the speedwells...unfortunately most of them aren't natives. Check out these two:
Persian Speedwell
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/verpe.htm
Corn Speedwell
http://www.missouriplants.com/Blueopp/Veronica_arvensis_page...

Well, I was excited today. Something bloomed in the yard...so pretty and I had no idea what it was! My memory is really bad, but I have a feeling it might be a plant I rescued a year or so ago thinking it was something else. It just had those strappy-looking Liliaceae-type leaves and then it hasn't bloomed since it's been here. Once in a while I'd wonder...you know, what IS that thing? Well, now that I've seen it bloom...I looked in my Enquist book and I think it's Death Camas, Zigadenus Nuttallii! This isn't really something I'm familiar with...something new. I'm so happy!

This message was edited Mar 23, 2008 10:50 PM