Mystery flower

[Stephen]

I am posting a collage of images taken on April 12, 2004 in Ancaster along the Bruce Trail. The flowers were in several clumps in a natural environment within a few feet of the main trail just before it descends the escarpment on the west side of the 403. I am hoping someone can help me ID it as I am relatively new to this hobby.

The image is at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/stephenlp

[Walter Muma]

I have no idea.
I see these flowers have 6 petals. Try Newcombe's, in the 6-regular-parts section.
They look sort of like Hepaticas or Spring Beauties. But I don't think they are.

[Mike_S]

These appear to be naturalized snow glories, Chionodoxa luciliae. Have a look at the photos on the following page on the Dave's Garden site: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/757/

[vientito]

I knew right away this belonged to a member of the lily family, but it does not really help flipping thru my wildflower guide. it is just not a typical wild specie, hence not being listed in all the guides I went thru. the closest match is wild hyacinth. interestingly it does belong to the hyacinth subfamily of the lily group.

[vientito]

spring beauty belongs to the purslane family and hence has 2 sepals underneath the corolla. lily family basically has something like tepals (an in-between of sepals and petals). if you look at the photo again you will not see a typical sepals underneath the corolla, because three of the petals are actually sepals (hence called tepals). most lilies are in the monocot group and all of them have parallel grasslike leaves as it lays bare in the photos.