Springstar

Description:

This is a small herbaceous perennial growing from a bulb and producing flat, shiny, green, hairless, grasslike leaves up to 30 cm (12 in) long. The foliage has an onionlike scent when crushed. The stem grows up to 20 cm (8 in) tall and bears a solitary showy flower in spring (hence the Latin name uniflorum - "single flower"). Each honey-scented, star-shaped flower has six pointed lobes up to 3 centimeters long in shades of very pale to deep purple-blue.

Habitat:

It is native to Argentina and surrounding countries, but can be found elsewhere, such as much of the southern half of North America, as an introduced species, possibly an escaped ornamental plant. Spotted growing in a historic cemetery in Kennesaw, GA

Notes:

Also called "Star-of-Bethlehem" which is also the common name for Ornithogalum umbellatum. Add'l web ref: http://www.southeasternflora.com/view_fl...