The light-blue-bordering-on-white blossoms have six petals--actually they are tepals--with six distinctive long yellow stamens. Wild hyacinth is a member of the lily family.
Monday, June 22, 2015
(Photo) Wild hyacinth
In Illinois wild hyacinth isn't a particularly common wildflower but I found one--just one--growing last month in the restored tallgrass prairie at Morton Grove, Illinois' Miami Woods.
The light-blue-bordering-on-white blossoms have six petals--actually they are tepals--with six distinctive long yellow stamens. Wild hyacinth is a member of the lily family.
The light-blue-bordering-on-white blossoms have six petals--actually they are tepals--with six distinctive long yellow stamens. Wild hyacinth is a member of the lily family.
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