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Snowdon alplily

Gagea serotina

Also called Snowdon Lily, Alp Lily, Alpine Lily, Common Alpine Lily, Golden Alpine Lily, Common Alp Lily, Common Alplily

Snowdon alplily
Photo: User:Stemonitis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Subarctic & Subalpine Northern Hemisphere
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Gagea serotina, synonym Lloydia serotina, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant of the lily family. It is widespread across the mountainous parts of western North America, from Alaska to New Mexico, and in Europe is found in the Alps, the Carpathians and the mountains of Bulgaria, as well as in Great Britain. It is also native to much of Central Asia, Siberia, China, Nepal, Mongolia, Korea and Japan.

It was originally known as mountain spiderwort, but is now known in Great Britain as the Snowdon lily, or in Welsh as lili'r Wyddfa. In North America, it is called the common alplily. It is also known as Snowdon alplily.

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 serotina 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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