The Encyclopedia of House Plants

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Plant identification guide.

Plants with aboveground creeping rhizomes. All leaves in rosette, linear, pointed, with drooping tips. Flowers pinkish or with a tint of lilac, in spikes, with pleasant odor. - Liriope carnea. Rhizome underground. Leaves growing out of soil surface level, in bundles. Plants form a sod. Flowers tiny, pale lilac or white, on a upright shaft. - Ophiopogon.