Wild(?) flower ID please

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  1. Scrungee

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    Found this morning growing in the wild margins of the plot (whilst checking for the first common spotted orchid flowers - found one). I'm assuming it's wild but it could be an escapee from some garden rubbish.

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    Could be Wild Hyacinth
     
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      Chionodoxa?
       
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        Are you sure that is not the name of the pills I should be on .. ? lol :roflol:
         
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          something like that :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
           
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          I reckon it a Hyacinth escapee as all the Hyacinths that were in pots and are not in the borders have reverted to that form.:dunno::coffee:
           
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          When I mooted the possibility it was an escapee, it would have to of been as seed, rather than a plant, as no such plant has appeared in this location for >25 years
           
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            It's what you get if you forget to take them.
             
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              To be flowering now I do not think this is Chionodoxa.

              Note the bract behind the flowers.


              Possibly it is cross between the Hyacinthoides non scripta...British bluebell.

              http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/...endangered-species/hyacinthoides-non-scripta/

              and Hyacinthoides hispanica ...Spanish bluebell.
              http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/...-bluebells/bluebell-identification/hispanica/

              Hyacinthoides x massartiana,

              http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/...lls/bluebell-identification/hybrid/index.html
               
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                After doing a lot of Googling that's what I was beginning to suspect, an English Bluebell hybrid (if that's the correct term), although most pics show tubular flowers (which these are most definitely not). But how a single plant has ended up in the middle of nowhere with no other bluebells (wild or cultivated) nearby, I haven't a clue.
                 
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