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Puschkinia scilloides |
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| Common name |
striped squill; Lebanese squill |
| Family |
hyacinthaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial bulb |
| Flowers |
white/light blue (early spring) |
| Size |
4" |
Delightful little early-spring flowers, appearing a week or so after the first crocus in our garden. Ours must have come from a bag of mixed bulbs, and are somewhat randomly scattered about - good for a surprise every now and then. They disappear without a trace by sometime later in spring.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Puschkinia scilloides
Some particularly helpful links to other websites
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Mehdi Kavousian | Jun 17, 2008 | I found these flowers in mountains of Iran at 3000 meter altitude. You may watch the photo I took. |
| Lori Skulski | May 16, 2015 | Hi, Rob,
The upper photo of the blue flowers is actually Chionodoxa luciliae. The photo on the right is correct (Puschkinia scilloides). :-)
You're right of course. At some point I started confusing the two (the Chionodoxa has its own page here). Errant photo removed. Thanks for your helpful comments and corrections! |
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