Thanks to Carol23 for a quick identification of a plant that has been a mystery to me fort 5 years! Louper

found this plant growing in the Laurentian forest north of Montreal - does anyone know what it is? I would like to transplant some into my yard but would like to know what it is before doing that.

Thank you tsugajunkie and floral_uk - I think the first is an allium. Smells and tastes (I just licked it after grinding it up, didn't eat it) like onions. Does anyone know how I'd know if they are an edible type? A few more photos of #2: the dead seed heads: Also I did a bit more digging around #3: It doesn't appear to me to have a square stem. There are some fairly thick and "twiggy" runners or vines that run above ground in many places: You can see at nodes or bumps or whatever they are called there are buds that form upwards, but there also appear to be areas where they send roots down and they establish a little root clump and almost a separate little plant:I also pulled a section out and took a closeup of the leaves: I also dug around a bit because the photos above don't show a thorny branch, but in other areas there are thorny branches. BUT - now I'm questioning if they are the same thing or not? Here's what for now I'll call #4 that shows leaves on a thorny branch - I'm not sure if it's the same as #3 or not: In trying to tell if they are the same thing or not - I pulled two leaves: they are "almost" the same. Does "almost" mean #3 and #4 are something different all together? Or just that #4 is a "more mature" plant so the leaves are slightly faster and different shaped than a "new sprout"? Here is the tops of leaves #3 and #4 compared (#4 on the right, slightly deeper serrations on the leaves): And here are the backs of the leaves #3 and #4: I can't tell if I'm going to be happy about these #3 (or #3 and #4 if they are two different things) or not: If they give me edible berries or pretty flowers they may get to stay in some areas, but I'm concerned that they seem to have spread everywhere - each of 5 staggered terraced gardens seems to have some amount of them popping up in them.... Sorry for the long post - I really appreciate the help and want to get to the bottom of this so I know if I should be pulling all of these out of my gardens or not....

As in Phlox subulata. Creeping Phlox is also known as Phlox stolonifera which is a totally different shade tolerant ground cover.