#striped squill

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Striped Squill (Puschkinia Scilloides)

[sulphuricgrin]

Striped Squill || Puschkinia scilloides

[samirafee]

#SCILLA MISCHTSCHENKOANA - STRIPED SQUILL - KAUKASISCHER BLAUSTERN

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[atlanticghostcrab]

[petirrojo57]

Between the Morton Arboretum and my yard, it’s (finally) beginning to look like Spring!

[eregyrn-falls-art]

Mystery bulb!

A few years ago, I put in a bunch of Siberian squill bulbs, given to me by a friend who does a lot of gardening. Those usually come up in early April.

But this white flower with the blue stripes came up in mid-March, and I'd never seen it before.

There are a bunch of wild tulips (or, "species tulips" I guess they should be called) in this patch of garden too; which I never planted and I have no idea where they came from. But they flower LATER than the squill.

Anyway, my friend helped out and our tentative identification of this was striped squill, or Lebanon squill (Puschkinia scilloides).

But now I'm not so sure, because all of the other photos I can find of striped squill show a petal-sheath structure around the stamens, which these obviously don't have.

^ from the Wikipedia page for Puschkinia scilloides.

BUT, then I did find ONE PAGE where a guy had pics that look like mine, and he was confidently identifying them as Puschkinia scilloides.

So I'm unsure what's up with that.

My friend said that yeah, she has these all over her yard too, so there's a possibility one of those bulbs got mixed in with all of the Siberian squill bulbs. But that this one took longer to mature, so that's why I didn't see it flower last year.

It's cute. I hope it propagates a little.

[belfastroadster]

Striped Squill blooming in the park.

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Puschkinia scilloides — striped squill