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Sichuan Fritillary

Fritillaria unibracteata

Fritillaria unibracteata is a bulb-forming perennial up to 40 cm tall, with dark purple, nodding bell-shaped flowers marked with yellowish-brown. It is grown for its ornamental flowers and as a medicinal herb, and it needs cool, well-drained conditions and a summer dormancy.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water moderately during the spring growing season and keep dry while the bulb is dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich soil or gritty potting mix.
Temperature
Cool conditions suit it best; it is hardy in cold winters.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Qinghai to China (Sichuan, S. Gansu)
Climate
temperate

About

Fritillaria unibracteata is a species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan Provinces in China.

It is a bulb-forming perennial up to 40 cm tall. The flowers are pendent and nodding, bell-shaped, dark purple with yellowish-brown markings.

Other Fritillaria plants

Fritillaria acmopetala · Checker lily · Stinkbells · Fritillaria alburyana · Fritillaria anhuiensis · Fritillaria assyriaca · Spotted fritillary · Chocolate lily · Chocolate lily · Greenhorn fritillary · Kamchatka fritillary · Fritillaria chitralensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fritillaria unibracteata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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