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Sternbergia schubertii is a small, autumn-flowering bulb native to a narrow area of western Turkey, known from only two populations. It is a rare plant that needs dry, sunny, well-drained conditions, and it is vulnerable in the wild, so it should be sourced from nursery-propagated stock.
Sternbergia schubertii is a diminutive autumn-flowering bulb that was described in 1840 from near Torbalı in western Turkey, then vanished from the botanical record for more than 150 years. A targeted survey in 1998 located a second, and so far only other, population about 300 km to the south-west in the Lycian section of the western Taurus Mountains, where the species grows on stony, east-facing limestone slopes at 180–300 m (590–980 ft) amid open scrub of Euphorbia, Cyclamen and scattered Olea europaea and Pinus brutia. The rediscovery confirms that S. schubertii is a narrow Turkish endemic and casts doubts on earlier records from elsewhere; its tiny extent of occurrence and attractiveness to bulb collectors make it highly vulnerable to disturbance.
Morphologically the species sits between the widespread S. lutea and the much smaller S.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sternbergia schubertii 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.
