Bulbs for ID in the Plant ID forum

Jul 11, 2015 5:46 PM CST

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I found this cluster of weird little white bulbs in the ground. They range from tiny to about the size of a golf ball. They have no stems or anything growing out of them. They look like little onions. I cut one open and its just white on the inside like an onion would be. Anybody know what they could be?

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Seedfork

Jul 11, 2015 6:06 PM CST

Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)

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froggardener

Jul 11, 2015 6:17 PM CST

Name: JoJo
Texas (Zone 8b)

Hi, welcome.
They might be little puffball fungus

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pardalinum

Jul 11, 2015 6:39 PM CST

Name: Connie
Willamette Valley OR (Zone 8a)

It looks like some kind of spring blooming bulb. It is dormant now but you can see where the roots were. My guess.

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JRsbugs

Jul 11, 2015 7:01 PM CST

Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK

Have you any Allium bulbs?

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

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Bonehead

Jul 11, 2015 9:10 PM CST

Name: Deb
Planet Earth (Zone 8b)

Welcome Jackson. I'd leave them be, make a note where they are, then see what comes up next spring. Are you new to your place?

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Sharon

Jul 11, 2015 9:42 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

In the enlarged picture, it looks to be foliage and bulb of what's commonly called Star of Bethlehem. It pops up occasionally around here, too, usually in shady spots.

Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum)

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ShadyGreenThumb

Jul 11, 2015 9:43 PM CST

Name: Cheryl
North of Houston TX (Zone 9a)

Whenever I pull up spring-blooming clover, sort of like oxalis I find they are little bulbs like that. My clover dies back in the summer. But I am sure the little bulbs thrive because they come back every winter.

I don't know the name of the plant but maybe someone knows what I am trying to talk about?

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bamira

Jul 11, 2015 10:10 PM CST

Sharon said:In the enlarged picture, it looks to be foliage and bulb of what's commonly called Star of Bethlehem. It pops up occasionally around here, too, usually in shady spots.

Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum)

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I also thought, but it is as big as a golf ball,

Ornithogalum-umbellatum me is growing everywhere, also so It has around the small bulbs

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greene

Jul 11, 2015 10:31 PM CST

Name: greene
Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) (Zone 8b)
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In this link, photo 3 of 14 shows a larger bulb using a coin as size reference.
https://extension.umass.edu/la...

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JRsbugs

Jul 12, 2015 5:56 AM CST

Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK

If the leaves in the first photo are the same as the bulbs, they resemble some species of Allium. Check out Allium canadense .. in the first link, scroll along the photos where you will find similar leaves with some dying foliage.

https://gobotany.newenglandwil...

http://www.nortonnaturals.com/...

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JRsbugs

Jul 12, 2015 6:05 AM CST

Name: Janet Super Sleuth
Near Lincoln UK