Japanese name: ハタケニラ（畑韮） Scientific name:Nothoscordum gracile
[Overview]
A perennial found in fields and by roadsides.
It has no leek-like smell.
It has a bulb about 1 cm across underground, surrounded by many scale-like bulblets.
Several basal leaves are produced, linear, 15–40 cm long and 0.5–1 cm wide.
An umbel emerges at the tip of a flower stalk about 20–60 cm tall and bears 8–20 flowers.
The base of the inflorescence has 2 bracts.
The flowers are white, 6-petaled, 1.5 cm across.
The outside of the tepals has pale pinkish stripes.
The fruit is a broadly elliptic capsule 7–8 mm long.
[History]
It is said to have been introduced as an ornamental plant around the middle of the Meiji period.
