It's also called squill. Shooting stars are dodecatheon, so that's taken. I don't know of anything called "spring-is-here", but claytonia is called "spring beauty". All these are ephemerals. Also in your picture is Virginia waterleaf and the insidious creeping bellflower. Pamela and I both call it "hairy bellflower," but maybe it is actually creeping. Dunno.
Snowdrops are genus galanthus, and are different that squill, even if there is a white form of the latter.
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Date: 2013-05-08 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-08 03:29 pm (UTC)Surely there must be some folksy name for these little cuties - shooting stars, or spring-is-here or something like that?
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-08 07:35 pm (UTC)Snowdrops are genus galanthus, and are different that squill, even if there is a white form of the latter.
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Date: 2013-05-11 09:33 am (UTC)