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Ornithogalum nutans, known as drooping star-of-Bethlehem, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Europe and South West Asia. It is a bulbous perennial growing to 20–60 cm (8–24 in) tall by 5 cm (2 in) wide, with strap-shaped leaves and green striped, pendent grey-white flowers in spring. [3]
Linnaeus' description of Ornithogalum 1753. Ornithogalum is a genus of perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa [3] belonging to the family Asparagaceae. Some species are native to other areas such as the Caucasus. [4] Some species are classified as noxious invasive weeds in some portions of North America.
These species have at various times been organised into sections or subgera or the entire genus split into separate genera, depending on the classification system used. For instance the three species O. broteroi Lainz, O. concinnum Salisb. and O. reverchonii Lange may be considered as a subgenus of Ornithogalum (subg.
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Ornithogalum umbellatum, the garden star-of-Bethlehem, grass lily, nap-at-noon, or eleven-o'clock lady, a species of the genus Ornithogalum, is a perennial bulbous flowering plant in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).
Galtonia was first described as a new genus within Liliaceae in 1880 by Joseph Decaisne, [1] [2] and appeared the following year in the 1881 Kew Gardens report. [6] He describes two species, G. candicans (Hyacinthus candicans Baker [7]) and G. princeps (Hyacinthus princeps Baker [8]), which are listed in an 1884 text. [9]
Albuca bracteata (syn. Ornithogalum longebracteatum [2]), is known by the common names pregnant onion, [3] false sea onion, [4] and sea-onion. [5] It is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. Its flowering stems can reach a height of 90 cm and can carry up to 100 greenish white flowers.
Ornithogalum saundersiae is a perennial, herbaceous bulbous plant. It reaches 30 to 100 cm. in height. The leaves measure 60 x 5 cm. and are less than half as long as the flower stem. The upper leaf surface is a shiny dark green. The inflorescence consists of numerous flowers and is conical. The flower stems are long.