Little White Flowers

White Mystery Flowers

These delicate white flowers have been popping up at several places around the garden this spring.

We have no idea what they are, or how they came to be here, but they're very pretty.  The leaves in this photo are those of a Nasturtium and don't belong to the white flowers, which have long, narrow, strap-like leaves.  The flower clusters are on long thin stalks.

Flowers With Partial Leaf

I'm starting to think this may be a member of the onion family; yesterday I noticed a thin membrane clinging to the base of a couple of the flower clusters, and it reminded me of the flowers on the Leeks and the Bunching Onions we've had the last couple of years.  The flowers of those plants are covered with a membrane before it splits open and the flowers emerge.

We knew what those plants were because Cindy had planted them and expected them to emerge where she had put them.

However, she didn't plant these, especially the one that's emerging in the middle of a path covered with decomposed granite (DG), because there's no dirt there and there is a layer of weed blocking fabric under the DG.

A gift from the gophers?  Some ground squirrel's pantry?  The secret stash of whichever varmint stole the False Sea Onion bulb last year?  

We'll probably never know.