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Scilla verna
Also called Sea Onion
Scilla verna, commonly known as spring squill, is a flowering plant native to Western Europe and Morocco. It belongs to the squill genus Scilla. Its star-like blue flowers are produced in April and May.
The plant occurs from Morocco north through Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain (particularly the west coast) and Ireland (mainly along the east coast), reaching as far as the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is found in short dry grassy areas, usually near the sea, though it is found at 415 metres above sea level on Foula. It is one of the key components of the H7 plant community in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It was chosen as the county flower for County Down in Northern Ireland after a public vote organised by the charity Plantlife in 2002.
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 · Hyacinth Bluebell · Pyrenean Squill
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scilla verna 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.
