Can anyone tell me what this flower is ?

[Robbi]

As the title says, this has sprouted from the lawn and we have no idea what it is, it's about a metre tall.

 

[Toddy]

It's like a weird ornamental onion.
No idea if that's what it actually is though

Nice weed

M

 

[Alan 13~7]

swimbo says it is honeybell yep she 's right

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=h...UICygC&biw=1024&bih=715#imgrc=gMyLqIEcKA2jdM:

 

[Robson Valley]

I think that Toddy is right. Some onions (aka Allium sp.) ae used for decorative plantings.
Snip off a leaf:
a) is it tubular, hollow inside?
b) crush some. Does it smell like onion?

 

[Alan 13~7]

I think that Toddy is right. Some onions (aka Allium sp.) ae used for decorative plantings.
Snip off a leaf:
a) is it tubular, hollow inside?
b) crush some. Does it smell like onion?

nope! honey bells they do grow from bulbs though! http://thebloomingauction.com/detail.asp?id=195004&n=MEDITERRANEAN-HONEY-BELLS-5-BULBS

 

[Robbi]

Fantastic ☺ thank you.

swimbo says it is honeybell yep she 's right

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=h...UICygC&biw=1024&bih=715#imgrc=gMyLqIEcKA2jdM:

 

[Toddy]

That's it…allium siculum
Nice one Alan 13~7

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/...ium+Nectaroscordum+Bulbs+-+Sicilum_220994.htm

 

[Robson Valley]

In the Sutton's link, I see Allium nectaroscordum . 'Silicum' I can only imagine that Silicum is somebody's common name.
In this post, I have corrected their notation of the correct Latin name. The Genus, Allium, is always capitalized.
The species, the specific term, nectaroscordum is never to be capitalized.

Toddy: Is A. siculum another species as well? I get to use A. because no other genus, generic term beginning with 'A' has been used.

In the olden days of type writers, words were underlined by the proof reader as a message to the typesetter = use Italics font for these words.

 

[Nice65]

In the Sutton's link, I see Allium nectaroscordum . 'Silicum' I can only imagine that Silicum is somebody's common name.
In this post, I have corrected their notation of the correct Latin name. The Genus, Allium, is always capitalized.
The species, the specific term, nectaroscordum is never to be capitalized.

You'd think a company like Suttons would know the species is always lower case. So a capital, followed by a lower case, then a description, but not a name. In trees, it might be Variagata, or Purpurea to identify it as variagated or a purple leafed variety.

Here's a good example of shrub naming. Berberis isn't my favourite plant but it has many varieties and they're listed her correctly.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-results?form-mode=false&query=Berberis thunbergii

I did trees, it's annoying when a system of naming plants, fungi, insects, arachnids, bacteria etc gets ignored after all the time it's taken to organise the weird and wonderful things we live with.

 

[Robson Valley]

Nice65: you ought to look inside the British Columbia Forest Service. They invented their own system of abbreviations,
not caring what the rest of the entire world agrees to for the naming of species.

Suttons ought to know, you're right. If they don't care about that fundamental concept, what else have they screwed up?
I actually sit up and pay more attention when the nomenclature is done correctly. Nice to see.
Either it's right or it's wrong. Nothing in between! Fix it or I won't accept your assignment.

 

[Herbalist1]

In the Sutton's link, I see Allium nectaroscordum . 'Silicum' I can only imagine that Silicum is somebody's common name.
In this post, I have corrected their notation of the correct Latin name. The Genus, Allium, is always capitalized.
The species, the specific term, nectaroscordum is never to be capitalized.

Toddy: Is A. siculum another species as well? I get to use A. because no other genus, generic term beginning with 'A' has been used.

In the olden days of type writers, words were underlined by the proof reader as a message to the typesetter = use Italics font for these words.

I suspect it is down to the regular changes we see in plant nomenclature. I've also seen it listed as Nectarscordum siculum and the common name Sicilian Honey Garlic. I guess that's the origin of the specific name.

 

[Robson Valley]

True. Might also be an issue of "right by prior claim."
Floral anatomy and phytochemistry might have confirmed the Allium affinity.