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Use this guide to grow snowdrop flowers that will reliably bloom in late winter, ... they make a colorful companion in the spring garden. Zones 4-8. Early-Blooming Daffodils. ... (Scilla siberica) ...
The flowers are usually blue, but those of Scilla siberica var. alba are white. The stamens of Scilla are separate, unlike those of the related genus Puschkinia, which are fused into a tube. The pollen is dark blue. After flowering, the flower stems become limp as capsules (pods) mature. At maturity, the capsules become purple and split open ...
In classical literature, Scilla was known for its medicinal properties. [b] [3] Later mentions include pre-Linnaen botanists such as Fuchs (1542) [7] and Clusius (1601), who considered many closely related plants to be types of Hyacinthus. [8] [9] [3] Spring Scilla flowers in Kildeskoven, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark
An inflorescence of 5–12 (exceptionally 3–32) flowers is borne on a stem up to 500 mm (20 in) tall, which droops towards the tip; [2] the flowers are arranged in a 1-sided nodding raceme. [8] Each flower is 14–20 mm (0.55–0.79 in) long, with two bracts at the base, and the six tepals are strongly recurved at their tips. [ 8 ]
Several African species previously classified in Scilla have been removed to the genus Ledebouria. The best known of these is the common houseplant still sometimes known as Scilla violacea but now properly Ledebouria socialis. [citation needed] Scilla autumnalis – autumn squill: see Prospero autumnale; Scilla maritima – sea squill: see ...
Scilla section Chionodoxa, known as glory-of-the-snow, is a small group of bulbous perennial flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Formerly treated as the separate genus Chionodoxa, they are now included in Scilla as a section. [2] [3] The section is endemic to the eastern Mediterranean, specifically Crete, Cyprus ...
Scilla luciliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. [2] It is referred to by the common names Bossier's glory-of-the-snow [3] 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.
A number of species of Fessia, often under their earlier names in the genus Scilla, are grown by gardeners specializing in ornamental bulbous plants; they are hardy but some need a dry period in summer. F. puschkinioides (syn. Scilla puchkinioides) is described as "an easy to grow hardy species". [4]