Family name: Asparagaceae
Common name: grassnut, Ithuriel's spear
This herbaceous perennial in cold areas, needs to be mulched in the winter to be protected from heavy
freezing
It can tolerate rabbits and slope and wind.
Water use: normal to moist
Flowers: tubular, opening into a sharply six-pointed star
Leaf: green foliage and has a showy blue-purple flower
This plant grows from a corm which is edible and similar in taste and use as the potato
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