Plants with bulbs have something extra to begin flowering fast and early. In a few days the flowering stalks of Common Grape Hyacinth (Muscari neglectum) came above ground and went up.
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Its leaves, spreading horizontally, are thin and nearly cylindrical and present long before the plant flowers.
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Common Grape Hyacinth looks very much like its cultivated garden counterpart, it is just a bit smaller and its round bell-shaped flowers are oval, not round.
The 'entrance' of those flowers has six, two times three, points of a paler blue, curved outwards.
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Fruits appear in summer, they have each three lobes, and every lobe has two sides with between them a black seed. As most monocotyl plants, Common Grape Hyacinth can count to three and do some simple multiplication.
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But it is coincidence there are six flowering stalks in this image. Apparently there are just six bulbs big enough to produce a flower.