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Scilla hyacinthoides
Also called Hyacinth Squill, Scilla, Seven Year Hyacinth
Scilla hyacinthoides is a bulbous spring-flowering plant from southern Europe to northern Iraq, bearing dense spikes of bluish-purple flowers on tall stalks. The key to growing it is planting bulbs in autumn in a sunny or lightly shaded spot with well-drained soil.
Scilla hyacinthoides is a geophyte, native to Southern Europe to Northern Iraq. Like all Scilla it is a bulbous plant.
Scilla hyacinthoides is native to France including Corsica, Italy (Sardegna, Sicilia), Greece including East Aegean Islands, Yugoslavia, and the Middle East with Turkey, Lebanon-Syria, Iraq and the Palestine region. It was introduced to Portugal, Spain, and Algeria, and in the US to Texas and Louisiana, as well as to South Australia.
Scilla · Scilla sect. Chionodoxa · Scilla ×allenii · Star Hyacinth · Alpine squill · Turkish Squill · Scilla buekkensis · Cilician Squill · Cretan Glory Of The Snow · Forbes' glory-of-the-snow · Pyrenean Squill · Amethyst Meadow Squill
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scilla hyacinthoides 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.
