Scilla luciliae, Sideroad 15, Mono, ON, CA

no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-04-16

Scilla luciliae (Boiss.) Speta

Boissier's Glory-of-the-snow, Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, Lucile's squill, Scilla

No habitat climate 61 photographs

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Summary

Scilla luciliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is referred to by the common names Bossier's glory-of-the-snow 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. The specific epithet is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885). 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

(Boiss.) Speta

Native to

Turkey

Wild records

none in range

Also known as Chionodoxa gigantea Whittall; Chionodoxa grandiflora Wore; Chionodoxa grandiflora Wore ex Wilks & Weather; Chionodoxa luciliae Boiss.; Chionodoxa luciliae var. alba M.C.Sedgw. & R.Cameron and 1 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, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Utah

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: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Angelika Baumann, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Екатерина Гущина, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

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

Alien vascular plant species new for the Republic of Karelia

Aleksey Kravchenko (2024) · БОТАНИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ

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