Tried finding this online and couldn't find it. They started sprouting up in my yard after it rained and I mowed down all but two of them. One popped up a while ago but died before I even saw it bloom. I transplanted the two I saved to see what they were. They're sprouting up like a weed, but not a normal weed. I never saw the other one bloom cause I just realized tonight that they're night bloomers.
What they look like before I replanted them. Nice size bulb on the left one.
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Picture of flower.
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It's difficult for me to tell with any degree of certainty, since you've posted pictures of the individual parts of the plant, as opposed to the whole thing. It does look like a Rain Lily, also called Autumn Zephyr Lily. The official name is Zephyranthes candida.
Here's a picture of Z. candida, so you can compare that plant with what yours looks like.
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Here's a picture of Z. candida, so you can compare that plant with what yours looks like.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Zephyranthes_candida.jpg[/img]
That looks like it could be it, thanks! Oh, and I only posted those pictures because that's all it is, a bulb, a long stem and a flower. No leaves or anything else to distinguish it. Only thing I'm seeing that makes me wonder, is that all the sites say Zephyranthes candida creates a clump of flowers and I only ever get just one.
The leaves of the Rain Lily are like grass and get about 12" tall. If there are no such leaves with your blooms, then I would look at the fall-blooming crocuses, such as C. speciosus alba.
There is another, very similar, little plant ... Colchicum ... that blooms without leaves, but I think it tends to produce flowers in clumps, so I don't really thnk that's what you have.
Then again, maybe it's neither of these. It could easily be something I just haven't turned up yet. One of the difficulties of seeing the actual flower separate from the stem is that I have no size reference for it. How wide is the flower? If you don't think it might be a crocus or Colchicum, post again, and I'll keep looking.
There is another, very similar, little plant ... Colchicum ... that blooms without leaves, but I think it tends to produce flowers in clumps, so I don't really thnk that's what you have.
Then again, maybe it's neither of these. It could easily be something I just haven't turned up yet. One of the difficulties of seeing the actual flower separate from the stem is that I have no size reference for it. How wide is the flower? If you don't think it might be a crocus or Colchicum, post again, and I'll keep looking.
Now I think I'm confused. What ever it is must be native to Texas as almost everyone's yard has them now. They all came out when it rained a few days ago, and they've lasted since we've had shadowy overcast skies the last few days.
Maybe it is the rain lily, it does have one leaf that looks like a blade of grass(where I circled it). Here's a pic for size reference, it is about 12'' tall. The flower closed up half way cause it's daylight, and I'm sure will open back up once it's dark again.
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I'm thinking I should go dig up some bulbs, the park just outside of town has a few hundred out there. I'd just have to wait til night and be sneaky
Maybe it is the rain lily, it does have one leaf that looks like a blade of grass(where I circled it). Here's a pic for size reference, it is about 12'' tall. The flower closed up half way cause it's daylight, and I'm sure will open back up once it's dark again.
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I'm thinking I should go dig up some bulbs, the park just outside of town has a few hundred out there. I'd just have to wait til night and be sneaky
Aha! Check out this site about [url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CODR2]Evening rain lily, Evening star rain lily (Cooperia drummondii Herbert)[/url].
Betcha that's your little flower!The fragrant, solitary, white flower of this showy, bulbous perennial, is six-petaled and terminal on a leafless, 12 in. stem.