Crow Poison

Palmetto State Park in Texas had an easy hike with so many wildflowers including this one called Crow Poison also known as false garlic. Hopefully my identification is correct and info I found said it is uncertain if this wildflower is actually poisonous. Taken March 25th on our return trip home from Big Bend National Park.

[Diana]

Beautiful shot, it looks very much like our wild garlic, except that our is lilac ;-)

[Casablanca]

Intriguing story, so I looked it up as I have not heard of it before. It is a protected species, it seems, and mildly poisonous - eating not recommended! Beautiful flower. Reminds me of an English wood anemone.

[moni kozi]

Great detail shot.
Let's not find out if it is poisonous or not :)

[bkb in the city]

Very nice shot

[Susan Wakely]

Looks like wild garlic. Lovely little flower.

[LManning (Laura)]

Beautiful detail. I like the layers of shadows.

[Mags]

Gosh! That's a gorgeous wildflower.

[Jean]

Pretty. Wonder how it got its name

[Lin]

Lovely

[KoalaGardens🐨]

so beautiful

[haskar]

Great shot and details. Sometimes it's hard to recognize, but I think it's garlic.

[KV]

@ludwigsdiana @casablanca @monikozi @bkbinthecity @wakelys @ljmanning @marlboromaam @jernst1779 @linnypinny @koalagardens @haskar Thanks so much for all of your comments and favs... @casablanca thanks for looking up the info on the wildflower... it is an interesting one. Interesting that several folks ( @ludwigsdiana @wakelys @haskar ) suggested that it looks liked garlic and perhaps it is... I didn’t touch the flower or plant to see if it smelled like garlic.... that would have given me a definitive answer since crow poison does not smell like garlic.

@jernst1779 Jean... it got the name because “Cherokee legend tells that they would use this plant to make a poison that would kill the crows eating their corn.” — https://ozarkedgewildflowers.com/spring-wildflowers/false-garlic-nothoscordum-bivalve/

[Sylvia]

What an interesting flower, great shot.

[Peter Dulis]

Sweet

[FBailey]

Very interesting - these are known as wild garlic or ransomes in the UK. They're just starting to come into bud too

[Islandgirl]

Pretty bloom!

[GaryW]

Gorgeous flowers.

[sheri]

Very pretty detail in the tiny blossoms.

[Margo]

Nice shot

[Babs]

So pretty, what an unusual name.

[Merrelyn]

Lovely detail.

[Lois]

Beautifully little flowers

[Margaret Brown]

Nice dainty capture