What kind of flower bulbs are these? (growing, grass, violet)

[cstleddy]

What kind of flower bulbs are these? I'm in Raleigh, NC (Zone 7b). They began sprouting the end of last summer and looked like sprigs of grass. I dug a few of them up and found they are actually bulbs.
Bulbs are white, anywhere from 1/2 to 1 inch in length, and the leaves are crescent shaped and about a foot long, although they are all wilted into a tangled mess.

photos taken February

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[tcs1366]

I could be totally off base here... but it looks like Chive. But i honestly can not recall if i saw actual bulbs when i planted my chives this past year. But the foliage seems the same.

[chazztrons]

looks like chives or wild onions to me.

[susancruzs]

I'm in Wisconsin and I have that stuff all over the place. I was surprised when I dug some up and found bulb like things. No one I asked knew what it was!

I had chives in Illinois and wild onion seems to make sense! If you do a search, wild onion comes up everywhere about getting rid of it, tough, I guess.

[Sillypups]

Could be crocus bulbs. They usually bloom very early in Spring & have many different colors. purple, violet, white, yellow etc.
I'd let them to their thing & wait. Then if you want to transplant them, wait until after they are done blooming.

[chazztrons]

I thought about crocus too ...but the tops look too long and thin
but could be

[cstleddy]

Thanks for your thoughts. I investigated the chive/onion thing and they don't appear to be either as individual leaves sprout directly from the bulb instead of one elongated tube with leaves coming out of that. I thought perhaps they are crocus, but the photos I've seen online really only show the blooms and not the foliage. Albeit, these are very, very long leaves on mine. It's odd that they sprouted last august and have grown to a foot in length by February. I'm eager to see what blooms!

[Eeyore1]

I'm in the same location as the OP. I think they are wild onions. They are everywhere in our yard and in our neighborhood. I had never seen them until last year, when we moved to this neighborhood. I call them "alien onions" because they seem to have minds of their own and they give me the creeps!

[ihynes]

"Leaves are narrow, long, and with parallel edges arising from the small underground bulb." Description, Wild Onion -- Vet Med Library, UIUC

[Ohiogirl81]

I'm guessing grape hyacinth, if the leaves came up in the fall and grew throughout the winter.

Also the way the bulbs are growing together in clumps, they look like grape hyacinths.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Muscari_Neglectum.jpg/180px- (broken link)