''Scilla hyacinthoides'' is a
geophyte, native to Southern Europe to Northern Iraq. Like all
Scilla
''Scilla'' () is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Sometimes called the squills in English, they are native to woodlands, subalpine ...
it is a bulbous plant.
Habitat
''Scilla hyacinthoides'' is native to France including Corsica, Italy (Sardegna, Sicilia), Greece including East Aegean Islands, Yugoslavia, and the
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
with
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
, Lebanon-Syria, Iraq and the
Palestine region. It was introduced to Portugal, Spain, and Algeria, and in the US to Texas and Louisiana, as well as to South Australia.
Description
It flowers in March to April with bluish-purple flowers on high flowering stalks.
See also
*
List of Scilla species
This list of ''Scilla'' species shows the accepted species names within the genus '' Scilla'', which are predominantly spring perennial plants in the order of Asparagales, and the Asparagaceae (amaryllis) family. The common name is squill, but t ...
References
Bibliography
The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens site(Hebrew)
* Michael Zohary; Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan (1966-1986) Flora Palaestina
* Witztum A.and Negbi M. (1991) Primary xylem of ''Scilla hyacinthoides'' (Liliaceae) - the wool-bearing bulb of
Theophrastus
Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek Philosophy, philosopher and Natural history, naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum (classical), Lyceum, the ...
. Economical Botany 45:97-102
hyacinthoides
''Hyacinthoides'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.
Systematics
''Hyacinthoides'' is classified in the subfamily Scilloideae (now part of the family Asparagaceae, but formerly treated as a separate f ...
Plants described in 1767
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