Flowers Growing at our Home

White Hyacinth (Fool's Onion)

Triteleia hyacinthina - Common, late spring-early summer, Perennial, 8-24 in. Stem erect, topped with white flowers. Leaves few, 8-16 in. long, narrow, with ridge down back. Flower head dense, flowers white sometimes tinted purple outside, tubes bowl-shaped, lobes widely ascending with green midveins, anthers extended, yellow to whitish, Grows in spring-wet grasslands from coast to mid elevations. Native. Ours grow next to the driveway drainage ditch.