Daffodils, and what are these bulbs?

[NewGuineaChooks]

An old farm is being demolished to make a Kroger store. I asked to dig up the daffodils that were blooming around the yard before the bulldozers destroyed them. I got a bucket each of the regular yellow ones, ruffled ones, and white ones. Wrong time of year to transplant, but I assume some of them will pull through, since they are bulbs.

There were also Iris, and several unidentifiable bulbs. So I dug them up too. What are they? I've only lived this far north for 6 months, and can't identify them.

No flowers or flower stalks showing. 25-30" leaves, the same shape as agapanthus leaves, but it is definitely a bulb. Here is a bucket of them, to the right of a bag of paperwhites (edit: not paperwhites, daffodils):

Bulb, showing the size:

The full plant:

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[beefy]

it looks like my favorite bulb, the snowdrop!

 

[NewGuineaChooks]

Are there really snowdrops that grow that tall? I've only seen ones that are about 6" in height.

 

[patandchickens]

They're sure not snowdrops.

To be honest, they look like daffodils to me!

They may be late-flowering, or they may just not have been happy enough (too crowded, or too shaded) to flower this year.

The only other things I can think of that look more or less like that are unlikely to be hardy in Ohio, so I'm sticking with daffodils.

Those are probably not paperwhites in the usual sense of the word, btw -- paperwhites have multiple small flowers per stem, and are not hardy in the north. Looks like a faded Ice Follies to me, or something like that anyhow.

Big congrats on all the bulbs, though!!!

(edited to add: I suppose it's not inconcievable they're Leucojum, summer snowflake... haven't seen the bulbs out of the ground for years tho so I can't remember whehter they're consistant with what you've got)

Pat

 

[robbobbin]

Surprise lilies, or some people call them lady slippers. They grow all green like that and then when the top is almost completely deal it shoot a strong stock straight up with beautiful pink lilies on it. Wait and see-leave the green undisturbed until very late fall and see perhaps its what i have here.

 

[beefy]

Robin is right, they are probably the pink magic lilies. theyre leaves look like an agapanthas but they are silverish green. they have the long thick leaves like that right now. and they are commonish at old farmsites ( ihave some in my yard around my farmhouse from the 1890s). i found a picture on floridata:
http://www.floridata.com/ref/L/lyco_squ.cfm

they definitely arent daffodils, those are daffs on the left with the flower, not paperwhites. at least the one blooming is not a paperwhite (narcissus).

 

[NewGuineaChooks]

So, not paperwhites, but white daffodils. Good to know that.

I will look forward to fall...and see if I get surprise flowers then. That would be fun!

I'll look up Leucojum as another possible option.

Thank you all for the help.

 

[patandchickens]

Actually, I'd like to change my vote now to what Robbobbin and beefy said. That may well be it. Lycoris squamigera -- I know them as 'naked ladies', I think there was a thread about them last November. Amazing how many names they have!

They're really great plants. I keep thinking about trying some up here, right near the house foundation to try to get them thru the winter. Mark where you plant them so that when the leaves die off you don't think it's a bare space and shovel 'em up trying to plant something else there just as they're getting ready to flower!


Pat