Asphodeline

Asphodeline - Plants nearly allied to the following, but the stems of Asphodelus are leafless, while in Asphodeline the leaves are produced on erect stems. About six kinds are in cultivation, the best known being A. lutea, which grows about 3 feet high, with yellow flowers in dense clustered spikes. A. taurica has white flowers, on stems 1 to 2 feet high. A. liburnica (A. cretica) and A. tenuior have yellow flowers in loose racemes. A. damascena has white blossoms in dense racemes, and A. brevicaulis has yellow flowers in loose recemes. These all thrive in ordinary soil.