Star Wars Garden Gnome Star Of Bethlehem Is No Jump Beauty!

Don't larn every bit good excited. This is non the boundary beauty you've been looking for.

I'll acknowledge it -- I was form of excited when I saw what looked similar a novel white wildflower popular upwards a pair places on the holding this boundary - 1 clump inward a garden bed beneath a crape myrtle, the other inward a weedy spell of lawn adjacent to the dorsum sidewalk.

I tried doing only about Internet query together with tentatively decided it powerfulness endure spring beauty (Claytonia virginica), a native wildflower inward Tennessee together with throughout much of eastern North America.

But something was bugging me well-nigh this flora ID. I took a closer await at my photos together with compared them to those online.

The plants inward my photos had half-dozen petals together with prominent six-pointed structures resembling footling crowns at the take in of the flower. (Sorry that's non to a greater extent than precise. I'm non much of a botanist together with ever larn anthers together with stamens mixed upwards inward my head.)

The pictures of boundary beauty that I institute online all exhibit a five-petaled flower, oftentimes amongst pink anthers held far to a higher house the surface of the flower.

So unfortunately it looks similar I accept star of Bethlehem (Orthinogalum umbellatum). And although it's charming, it also has a (contested) reputation for behaving invasively. It may also endure quite toxic.

So...looks similar a shovel-pruning is inward the forecast.