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Scilla luciliae
Also called Lucile's Glory Of The Snow, Lucile's Squill, Scilla
A small, early spring blooming bulb from western Turkey with white-centred violet-blue flowers. It naturalizes easily in a sunny or lightly shaded spot and then goes dormant after flowering until the next spring.
Scilla luciliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is referred to by the common names Bossier's glory-of-the-snow or Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, and is a bulbous perennial from western Turkey that flowers in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. The specific epithet is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885). It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly put in a separate genus, Chionodoxa, and may now be treated as Scilla sect. Chionodoxa.
A number of frost-hardy plants in the genera Scilla, Chionodoxa, Hyacinthoides, Muscari, Puschkinia, Brimeura, Hyacinthella, Bellevalia, Hyacinthus and Ornithogalum were listed as deserving of the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. To receive this award, plants must provide decorative excellence; be easily acquired; be hardy, and not require a specialist; they must be pest- and disease-resistant, and not likely to be subject to reversion. In 1993 Chionodoxa luciliae was listed as having its Award of Garden Merit reconfirmed. Plants in the trial were acquired from the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Scilla luciliae had its Award of Garden Merit confirmed again in 2017.
Scilla luciliae is native to western Turkey. It has a restricted distribution in the Mahmut Mountain in İzmir Province. Almost all species that are very frost-hardy belong to the Hyacinthaceae family and originate in the region of the Mediterranean from Turkey to Asia.
Scilla sect. Chionodoxa · Star Hyacinth · Alpine squill · Turkish Squill · Forbes' glory-of-the-snow · Pyrenean Squill · Amethyst Meadow Squill · Mishchenko Squill · Dwarf Glory Of The Snow · Portuguese Squill · Lesser Glory Of The Snow · Siberian squill
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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.
