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Gagea chrysantha; photograph Lorenzo Peruzzi, Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Biologia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SALorenzo Peruzzi, Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Biologia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Gagea chrysantha (Jan) Schult. & Schult.f.

Golden Gagea

Liliaceae · Italy, Sicilia · listed by its family as a bulb, tuber or caudex

No habitat climate
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Summary

Gagea chrysantha is a European species of plants in the lily family, found only in Italy and Sicily. Similar populations from the eastern Mediterranean have long been referred to G. chrysantha but recent evidence suggests that this group is actually a complex of several species rather than a single species.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gagea chrysantha", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the family Liliaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the family Liliaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeItaly, Sicilia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker37.878, 13.395 · in the densest population, 4 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 302 km away. 73 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Gagea 19 in the reference

Gagea amblyopetala Blunt-flowered Gagea Gagea bohemica Gagea bohemica Early star-of-bethlehem Photo: CC BY, Michal HonskusGagea bulbifera Gagea bulbifera Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Yeskendir SatekovGagea fibrosa Gagea fibrosa Acute-flowered Star-of-Bethlehem Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisGagea flavonutans Gagea flavonutans Liliaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoGagea foliosa Gagea foliosa Leafy Gagea Photo: CC BY-SA, XemenenduraGagea fragifera Gagea fragifera Star of Bethlehem Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleGagea granulosa Gagea granulosa Granular gagea Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinGagea lutea Gagea lutea Yellow star-of-Bethlehem Photo: CC BY, Andrejus GaidamavičiusGagea minima Gagea minima Least Gagea Photo: CC BY, snaily_nailyGagea nakaiana Gagea nakaiana Oriental yellow gagea Photo: CC BY, Tatyana Petrenko Gagea oxycarpa Liliaceae all 20 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ornithogalum chrysanthum; Stellaster chrysanthus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Liliaceae
Described by
(Jan) Schult. & Schult.f.
Native to
Italy, Sicilia
Wild records
6 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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