Scilla hyacinthoides

Species of flowering plant

Scilla hyacinthoides

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Asparagales
Family:  | Asparagaceae
Subfamily:  | Scilloideae
Genus:  | Scilla
Species:  |

S. hyacinthoides

Binomial name
Scilla hyacinthoides

Scilla hyacinthoides is a geophyte, native to Southern Europe to Northern Iraq. Like all Scilla it is a bulbous plant.

## Habitat[edit]

Scilla hyacinthoides is native to France including Corsica, Italy (Sardegna, Sicilia), Greece including East Aegean Islands, Yugoslavia, and the Middle East with Turkey, Lebanon-Syria, Iraq and Palestine. It was introduced to Portugal, Spain, and Algeria, and in the US to Texas and Louisiana, as well as to South Australia.[1]

## Description[edit]

It flowers in March to April with bluish-purple flowers on 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) high flowering stalks.[2]

## See also[edit]

* List of Scilla species

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kew Science. "Scilla hyacinthoides L." Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
2. ^ "Scilla hyacinthoides L." Flora of Israel and adjacent areas. Retrieved 2023-04-23.

## Bibliography[edit]

* 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. Economical Botany 45:97-102

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q658705
* Wikispecies: Scilla hyacinthoides
* APDB: 160433
* APNI: 90677
* CoL: 4VJGJ
* eFloraSA: Scilla_hyacinthoides
* EoL: 1082601
* EUNIS: 188527
* FoAO2: Scilla hyacinthoides
* FoIO: scihya
* GBIF: 2767320
* GRIN: 407558
* iNaturalist: 482848
* IPNI: 540833-1
* ISC: 116969
* NCBI: 81773
* Observation.org: 128571
* Open Tree of Life: 791738
* Plant List: kew-288689
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:540833-1
* Tropicos: 100256315
* WoI: 141
* WFO: wfo-0000741191

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