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Identification help please

WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
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Hello, can anyone tell me what this is please, my sister thinks they’re white ‘bluebells’...I think it’s from the campanula family? 
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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I am the world's worst with flowers Welshgardengirl but I think it looks like a white form of Muscari.  Someone with more experience will be along to help you with a more considered identification I'm sure  :)
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
    edited April 2021
    Thank you, it was kind of you to take the time to answer ☺️
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    It's very similar to 3 cornered leek.......I posted a querry on very similar plant recently.
  • WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
    Thank you Mary, I’ve just looked up your suggestion online and they’re very very similar...😁
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    I think it’s the white form of the Spanish bluebell.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Agree that it is white "bluebell".
    We have them in our garden and they light up in the evening glow.
    Lovely.
  • WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
    Thank you all....hope I can be of help to others on the forum one day 🥰
  • WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
    I read that it’s illegal to allow them to naturalise in the wild here as they’re an invasive species. I must confess that I really like them so I will be sure to only allow them in my garden. I have lots of Spanish bluebells already but I find them so pretty 🥰🥰🥰
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Spanish bluebells.   If you are somewhere the Spanish bluebells can hybridise with the native bluebells you should hoik them out if possible or at least cut them down so the leaves can't feed the bulbs and proliferate.   Otherwise enjoy them but don't let them spread further.   They can be a menace and you'd be surprised how far pollinator insects fly and thus the dangers of hybridisation.

    They're not three cornered leeks - those have triangular stems and green markings on the flowers. 

    Not campanula, the leaves are all wrong and not a white form of the native bluebell - leaves and flower stem are wrong. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • WelshgardengirlWelshgardengirl Posts: 8
    Thank you for that. I have to admit I didn’t consider pollinators spreading them. I’m not near any native bluebells in my area of Wales. 
    I have much to think about 🤔. 
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