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Cilician Squill

Scilla cilicica

Cilician Squill
Photo: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
S. Türkiye to N. Israel
Climate
subtropical

About

Scilla cilicica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Scilla, native to Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and Israel. It is a perennial growing to a height of 50cm, with a similar width, flowering from February to March with violet-purple flowers.

Other Scilla plants

Scilla · Scilla sect. Chionodoxa · Scilla ×allenii · Star Hyacinth · Alpine squill · Turkish Squill · Scilla buekkensis · Cretan Glory Of The Snow · Forbes' glory-of-the-snow · Hyacinth Bluebell · Pyrenean Squill · Amethyst Meadow Squill

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scilla cilicica 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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