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Hyacinthoides hispanica
Also called Hispanic hyacinthoides, Garden Bluebell, Spanish Squill
Spanish bluebell is a spring-flowering bulb native to Portugal and western Spain, grown for its upright blue, pink or white bell flowers. It thrives in dappled shade and moist, well-drained soil, and it naturalises readily so plant it where it can spread.
Hyacinthoides hispanica (syn. Endymion hispanicus or Scilla hispanica), the Spanish bluebell or wood hyacinth, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial native to the Iberian Peninsula. It is one of around a dozen species in the genus Hyacinthoides, others including the common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in northwestern Europe, and the Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica) further east in the Mediterranean region.
Hyacinthoides hispanica is native to the western part of the Iberian Peninsula (excluding the far northwest), including Portugal and western Spain. However, it has naturalised and is cultivated in many other European countries, as well as in North America and Australia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hyacinthoides hispanica 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.
