I'm out of my area here but my wife wants to know what

kind of flower her grandmother handed down to her.

It has been called a lilly by her and from what I can tell that is what it is. The picture shows a pot with a couple dozen of these bulbs in. Unfortunately the flower that I

got around to photograph has a notch in the petal which

they hardly ever do. They don't seem to be hardy here in

zone 4, so we put them over in the basement for the winter.

They flower like crazy in the summer and are beautiful.

http://www.rrcnet.org/~nordbyc/purgatory/lilly.jpg