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Scilla bithynica
Also called Squill
Turkish squill is a small spring-flowering bulb with starry blue flowers, native to Bulgaria and northern Turkey and valued in gardens for naturalising in lawns and borders. Plant the bulbs in autumn in well-drained soil in sun or part shade.
Scilla bithynica, the Turkish squill, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Scilla, native to Bulgaria and Turkey. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Scilla sect. Chionodoxa · Star Hyacinth · Alpine squill · Forbes' glory-of-the-snow · Pyrenean Squill · Amethyst Meadow Squill · Boissier's Glory Of The Snow · Mishchenko Squill · Dwarf Glory Of The Snow · Portuguese Squill · Lesser Glory Of The Snow · Siberian squill
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scilla bithynica 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.
