Bummer!
Both photos taken with my iPhone. I'm a brand new user of iNaturalist. Yesterday I posted the photos above and this morning got my ID: Blackberry Lily (Iris domestica). I thought with a name like this it was surely a native flower. Nope. Native to east Asia.
So disappointed because it is such charming little flower. I found them under my spicebush at the head of my pondless waterfall yesterday. I knew I didn't plant them. The stalk creates a seedpod that is present in fall and winter. Apparently, one or more of the robin visitors to my pond dropped a few seeds that took hold.
My yard is not completely native but I am trying to keep it as native as is possible; despite living in a non-native heaven area of the state Just planted a couple of new coneflowers and some Anise hyssop yesterday.
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