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Granatelli’s Gagea

Gagea granatellii

Granatelli’s Gagea
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Granatelli's Gagea is a small bulbous geophyte from the western Mediterranean and Black Sea region, with yellow flowers on red stems. It is a wild spring plant rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, and it needs a cool, dry summer dormancy.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while growing in spring, then keep dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy soil.
Temperature
Hardy to around -10 °C; dormant in summer heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WC. Medit.
Climate
temperate

About

Gagea granatellii is a Mediterranean and Black Sea species of plants in the lily family. It is native to Spain incl. Balearic Islands, France incl. Corsica, Italy (incl Sardinia + Sicily), Libya, Greece, Romania, and Crimea.

Gagea granatellii is a bulb-forming herb with yellow flowers and red stems.

Other Gagea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gagea granatellii 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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