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|accepted_name=Ornithogalum nutans
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 308. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Nodding star-of-Bethlehem
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Ornithogalum;Ornithogalum nutans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ornithogalum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ornithogalum nutans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 319
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(15–)30–50(–60) cm; bulbs progressively renewed over 3–4 years, 2–3 × 2.5–3.5 cm; bulblets numerous. <b>Leaves</b> (3–)4–6; blade with white adaxial stripe, 30–60 cm × (3–)5–10(–15) mm. <b>Scape</b> 2–5 dm. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose, 5–12(–18)-flowered, cylindrical; bracts 3–4 cm. <b>Flowers</b> nodding, especially after anthesis; perianth campanulate; tepals white with wide green abaxial stripe, lanceolate, 20–30 × 9–12 mm, outer 3 slightly gibbous at base, inner 3 slightly wider; stamens: outer 6–8 × 3–4 mm, inner 13–15 × 4–5 mm; filaments 3-dentate, flattened; anthers 3–4 mm; ovary ovoid to subglobose, slightly 6-angled, 5–6 mm; style 5–6 mm; lower pedicels to 1 cm. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ovoid. <b>2n</b> = 45.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Fields, waste places, abandoned gardens
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe;sw Asia;expected elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Though widely cultivated and naturalized, <i>Ornithogalum nutans</i> is not as common as <i>O. umbellatum</i>.</p>
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name=Ornithogalum nutans
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Fields, waste places, abandoned gardens
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ill.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Va.;W.Va.;Europe;sw Asia;expected elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_637.xml
|genus=Ornithogalum
|species=Ornithogalum nutans
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