grasslike

Each bulb produces one or more flowering stems above grasslike foliage.

The rest of the book profiles 368 “often beautiful, but mostly unwanted” plants, organized into sections for trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants, grasses and grasslike plants and aquatic weeds.

The blooms of May become the seeds of summer, and in a fertile, free-draining and sunny site, they soon grow into grasslike clumps.

Most have delicate grasslike foliage less likely to foul an otherwise-pristine spring planting.

By December, you should see grasslike wisps from these points, letting you know that your seed garlic is growing roots and is firmly anchored and entirely safe from the coming freezes.