Scilla forbesii, Kenwood Park, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Scilla forbesii (Baker) Speta

Asian spring bulb, Forbes' glory-of-the-snow, Forbes' squill, Glory-Of-The-Snow

No habitat climate 53 photographs

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Summary

Scilla forbesii, known as Forbes' glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial plant from west Turkey flowering in early spring. It is considered synonymous with Scilla siehei, known as Siehe's glory-of-the-snow, by some sources, although others distinguish them. It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly put in a separate genus, Chionodoxa, and may now be treated as Scilla sect. Chionodoxa. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. More on Wikipedia ›

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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

(Baker) Speta

Native to

Turkey

Wild records

none in range

Also known as Chionodoxa forbesii Baker; Chionodoxa luciliae var. forbesii (Baker) Drude; Chionodoxa luciliae var. tmolusi (Whittall) M.C.Sedgw. & R.Cameron; Chionodoxa siehei Stapf; Chionodoxa tmolusi Whittall and 2 more.

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: Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Germany, South European Russia, Vermont

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) Michel Langeveld, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Emil Jantke, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) olmagon, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Rebs Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

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 forbesii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Protective Role of Ice Barriers: How Reproductive Organs of Early Flowering and Mountain Plants Escape Frost Injuries

Clara Bertel, Jürgen Hacker, Gilbert Neuner (2021) · Plants

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