plant ID needed yucca/fire poker looking

[Earthpeace]

We have a piece of land with these plants growing, our livestock will not eat them so i guess they are toxic, they look like a yucca or fire poker , there leaves are soft like the fire poker and not hard or spiky. The flowers are just coming out now. does anyone know what they are? we are planning on ploughing the field for reseeding but i'd like to know if they are rare before doing so or just a weed.

 

[locum76]

I'll have a guess that it is a 'Chlorophytum' (spider plant) of some kind. In which case it is probably a feral exotic, not native to France and most at home in the himalayas and/ or Africa.

 

[_scorpio_]

omg i was going to say the flowers look identical to my spider plants but i looked at the size of it and thought i was being stupid!

 

[Galemys]

I reckon it is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphodelus_albus

so it could be a native if you are based in Southwestern France.

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Earthpeace]

thanks for all the replys, yep that looks like the one tom cheers

Mmmm any uses? i did try dying with the leaves it make a nice yellow, and fix well.

 

[Galemys]

thanks for all the replys, yep that looks like the one tom cheers

Mmmm any uses? i did try dying with the leaves it make a nice yellow, and fix well.

You can lighten your freckles with the tubers!
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Asphodelus+albus

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Commoner]

we have similar flowered bog-asphodel in uk, unsurprisingly in acid bogs etc.

 

[locum76]

great, an affirmative ID. I don't think we have it up here.