Scilla amoena L.

Krasna cesnicka, Star Hyacinth, star-hyacinth

No habitat climate 29 photographs

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Summary

Scilla amoena, the star hyacinth or squill, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Scilla.

Text from Wikipedia, “Scilla amoena”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Scilla

Scilla is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Sometimes called the squills in English, they are native to woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A few species are also naturalized in Australasia and North America. More on Wikipedia ›

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Family

Asparagaceae

Described by

Native to

Turkey

Wild records

none in range

Also known as Hyacinthus amoenus (L.) E.H.L.Krause; Othocallis amoena (L.) Salisb.; Othocallis amoena (L.) Speta; Othocallis amoena (L.) Trávn.; Scilla amara Crantz.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

NativeTurkey· introduced: Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia

Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Jakub Šidlík, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Jörg Spelda, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Scilla amoena, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Notulae ad Floram Germanicam I

Rolf Wißkirchen, Knud Ib Christensen, W. Bernhard Dickoré, Günter Gottschlich (1997) · Feddes Repertorium

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