Blue squill is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Chamaescilla corymbosa
''Chamaescilla corymbosa'', commonly known as blue stars, blue squill or mudrurt, is a tuberous perennial herb species in the genus '' Chamaescilla''. It is endemic to southern Australia.
Plants are 10 to 15 cm high and have grass-like bas ...
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Craspedia glauca
''Craspedia glauca'', commonly known as billy buttons, is an erect annual or perennial herb endemic to Tasmania. It is usually an annual herb with pale green leaves in a rosette and yellow button-like flowers on a tall stem.
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Dampiera linearis
''Dampiera linearis'', commonly known as common dampiera or wedge-leaved dampiera, is an erect perennial herb in the family Goodeniaceae. The species, which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, grows to between 15 and 60 cm (6 ...
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta
''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' (formerly ''Endymion non-scriptus'' or ''Scilla non-scripta'') is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is ...
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Merwilla plumbea
''Merwilla plumbea'' is a bulb-forming perennial herb in the small genus ''Merwilla
''Merwilla'' is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).Stevens, P.F. ...
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Puschkina scilloides libanotica''
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Scilla siberica''
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Trillium grandiflorum''
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Zantedeschia jucunda
''Zantedeschia'' is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The genus has been introduced on all continents except Antarctica. Comm ...
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Many of these are grown as ornamental plants and it seems likely that blue squill is a particularly popular name among plant breeders. Others are local names from different parts of the world.
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