Hyacinthaceae, the hyacinth family.
Description:
Plant:
Familiar spring garden flower with compact, grape-like clusters of small, blue, globular flowers
and basal, grass-like leaves all rising 4"-8" from an underground bulb.
Perennial.
Flowers:
Blue, with united perianth forming almost closed, globular blossoms, with six, small lobes
about the opening, about 1/8"
in diameter, clustered in a compact, conical or cylindrical raceme at the top of a long stalk.
Leaves:
Basal, linear, grasslike, about 1/4" wide, to about 8" long, and broadly grooved.
Fruit:
A capsule.
Blooming:
April-May
Habitat:
Fields, roadsides, around old homesteads.
Comments:
A familiar spring garden flower, naturalized from Europe.
These are probably an escaped horticultural variety derived from M. botryoides.
Where to find it:
In the grassy area between the entrance road and the drainage ditch, and scattered other
locations.