Can anyone identify this flower?

[peanut]

I have this pretty little flower al over my garden, it's a bulb, but I can't find it in any books, I'm sure I remember seeing it as a wild flower, any ideas?

thanks

[Snadger]

It looks like Ixia Polystachya (corn lily)

Google it on images!

[jacob marley]

Hi mr snadger the flower is ORNITHOGALUM otherwise known as Star of Bethlehem -umbellatum .
height 12 inches hardy plant blooms in April and May

[Palustris]

It surely is an Ornithogalum.

[SarzWix]

I'm not sure it is, the petals seem different?

Or is it just that they're more open?!

[SarzWix]

This is Ixia Polystachya , found on Google... quite similar!

[Flummery]

If I had to vote I'd go with Snadger. Ixia. Nice though, innit?

[Palustris]

Sorry, but it definitely is Ornithogalum nutans, which is actually a British native. Ixia would almost certainly not survive over winter in North Cambridgeshire and definitely would not spread all over the garden, it is rather too tender for that.

[SueA]

I agree with Palustris that it looks like an Ornithogalum nutans or maybe montanum. There are lots of different Ornithogalums & the one Sarah has posted looks more like possibly 'narbonense' or a different variety.

[peanut]

Thanks everyone, I think Palustris is right, I suspected it was a wildflower as I'm sure I've seen it before and admired it, now I have it everywhere!