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Altai Star Of Bethlehem

Gagea altaica

Altai Star Of Bethlehem
Photo: Yuriy75, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
Siberia to N. Xinjiang
Climate
temperate

About

Gagea altaica is an Asian species of plants in the lily family, native to Kazakhstan, Siberia (Tuva, Altay Krai, Krasnoyarsk), and Xinjiang Province of western China.

Gagea altaica is a bulb-forming perennial that grows up to 12 cm (4.7 in) tall. The flowers are golden yellow to yellow-brown, usually giving only one or two flowers per plant but sometimes more.

Other Gagea plants

Gagea alberti · Blunt-flowered Gagea · Antakya Gagea · Early Star Of Bethlehem · Gagea bulbifera · Gagea chinensis · Golden Gagea · Gagea daqingshanensis · Gagea divaricata · Gagea dubia · Gagea fedtschenkoana · Gagea filiformis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gagea altaica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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