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Scilla sardensis
Also called Glory Of The Snow
A small bulbous perennial from western Turkey with violet-blue star-shaped spring flowers, which goes dormant after flowering. Plant the bulbs in autumn in a sunny to lightly shaded spot with free-draining soil.
Scilla sardensis, the lesser glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial from west Turkey flowering in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. 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.
This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).
Scilla sardensis is native to western Turkey. It has a restricted distribution in the Bozdağ Mountains in İzmir Province.
Scilla sect. Chionodoxa · Star Hyacinth · Alpine squill · Turkish 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 · 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.
