Hyacinth squill

Hyacinth squill
	Hyacinth squill ( Scilla hyacinthoides )
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Scilloideae
Genre :	Squill ( Scilla )
Type :	Hyacinth squill
Scientific name
	Scilla hyacinthoides
	L.

The hyacinths squill ( Scilla hyacinthoides , Syn. : Nectaroscilla hyacinthoides . (L.) Parl ) is a plant from the genus of Blue Star ( Scilla ) in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae).

description

The hyacinth squill is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 30 to 80 centimeters. This geophyte forms onions as persistent organs. The four to twelve leaves standing together in a basal rosette are simple, 30 to 60 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide, narrowly lanceolate, runny and ciliate on the edge.

40 to 180 flowers form a dense cluster . The lower bracts are 1 millimeter long. The radially symmetrical , hermaphrodite flowers are threefold. The six identical bloom bracts are 6 to 7 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide, light blue-violet and bell-shaped to star-shaped.

The flowering period extends from April to May.

Occurrence

The natural range is the eastern Mediterranean. Here the hyacinth squill occurs on the East Aegean islands, in western and southern Turkey , in Syria , Lebanon , Palestine and in Iraq on dry limestone grasslands. The species was naturalized in the western and central Mediterranean region ( Corsica , France , Portugal , Sardinia , Spain , Greece , Italy , Sicily , former Yugoslavia , Algeria ) as well as in South Australia and in the US states of Texas and Louisiana . Information from Crete and Cyprus are doubted.

use

Hyacinth Blue Star is rarely used as an ornamental plant used in borders and is since 1576 Culture .

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literature

Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. tape 5 : Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Springer, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 , pp. 746 .

Individual evidence

↑ EV Mordak: Scilla. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 8 (Butomaceae to Typhaceae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1984, ISBN 0-85224-494-0 , pp. 222 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): World Checklist of Asparagaceae. : Scilla hyacinthoides L. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Internet publication, last accessed 9 February 2016.
↑ Franz Speta: The spring-blooming Scilla species of the eastern Mediterranean. In: Natural History Yearbook of the City of Linz. Volume 25, 1979, pp. 19-198 (here: pp. 182-188, PDF (25.9 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
^ Werner Greuter: Floristic Report of the Cretan Area. In: Memórias da Sociedade Broteriana. Volume 24, 1974, ISSN 0081-0665 , pp. 131-171 (here: p. 161).

Web links

Commons : Hyacinth squill ( Scilla hyacinthoides ) - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Avinoam Danin: Scilla hyacinthoides in the Flora of Israel online.

[FT8-1] EV Mordak: Scilla. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 8 (Butomaceae to Typhaceae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1984, ISBN 0-85224-494-0 , pp. 222 .

[WCSP-2] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): World Checklist of Asparagaceae. : Scilla hyacinthoides L. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Internet publication, last accessed 9 February 2016.

[Speta1979-3] Franz Speta: The spring-blooming Scilla species of the eastern Mediterranean. In: Natural History Yearbook of the City of Linz. Volume 25, 1979, pp. 19-198 (here: pp. 182-188, PDF (25.9 MB) on ZOBODAT ).

[Greuter_1974-4] Werner Greuter: Floristic Report of the Cretan Area. In: Memórias da Sociedade Broteriana. Volume 24, 1974, ISSN 0081-0665 , pp. 131-171 (here: p. 161).