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Jun 10, 2014 9:01 AM CST
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Name: Rick
South central Kentucky
I have lived in this house for almost 11 years now. Behind me is a big field that the land owners crops every year. These
Thumb of 2014-06-10/getterdone/1df060 flowers came up this year for only the second time since I have lived here. They no teil plant each year so the ground never gets turned over. This winter here in my part of Kentucky stayed pretty wet, So I figured out why this is only the second time they came up. We wanted to dig some of them up for our flower bed. They were about 10 inches deep in the ground
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. They come from bulbs. If the winter is to dry then they can't come up, but this spring they were hoping. So pretty, a real dark blue. The whole area looked like water. I hope they come back next year. Can any one tell me what they are called. Thanks.
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Jun 10, 2014 9:05 AM CST
Name: Tara
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Mmmm, pretty! Could they be Grape Hyacinth?
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Jun 10, 2014 9:07 AM CST
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Name: Dave Whitinger
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Probably Grape Hyacinth (Muscari botryoides)

It is shown as a native to your area of Kentucky.
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Jun 10, 2014 9:12 AM CST
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Name: Rick
South central Kentucky
The ones We dug up and added to our flower bed kept there blooms for several days, then the flowers went to seed, The seeds have three sides to them. They are just now drying out enough to fall off the flower stem. Thanks for the help.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:47 AM CST
Name: Lori
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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dave said:Probably Grape Hyacinth (Muscari botryoides)

It is shown as a native to your area of Kentucky.


Yes to the species but no species of Muscari is native to North America. They are naturalized invasives where they occur in the wild.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:05 AM CST
Name: Jay
Nederland, Texas (Zone 9a)
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Could be Muscari neglectum.
Here is the description from Flora of North America

Racemes 12–20-flowered; leaf blades 3–8 mm wide; perianth tubes of fertile flowers globose, sky blue. 2 Muscari botryoides

Racemes 20–40-flowered; leaf blades 2–4(–5) mm; perianth tubes of fertile flowers obovoid to oblong-urceolate or cylindric, blackish blue. 3 Muscari neglectum

http://www.efloras.org/florata...
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Jun 10, 2014 12:24 PM CST
Name: Lori
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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It's not Muscari neglectum which, very characteristically, has a dark inflorescence, and assuming the photo colour is accurate, it doesn't appear to be M. botryoides either..

The ones in question look like plain old Muscari ameniacum.


USDA Plants has records of Muscari botryoides, M. comosum and M. neglectum being naturalized in the wild... yikes.
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Jun 10, 2014 12:35 PM CST
Name: Jay
Nederland, Texas (Zone 9a)
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M. ameniacum is naturarlized in the US also. Just not as widespread as the others.
Here are the distribution maps.
http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMap...
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