Scilla siberica

Siberian squill ( Scilla siberica )

Siberian squill ( Scilla siberica ), also called nodding bluebell and Siberian bluebell, a flowering plant in the genus Blue Star is (Scilla ), belongs to the family of the asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ).

Features

The Siberian squill is similar to the two-leaf Squill (Scilla bifolia ). He has two to four linealische leaves on a shoot. At the 10 to 15 centimeters tall stalks are one to three flowers. The blue flowers are unlike anything glockig and nodding at the two-leaf blue star. It blooms from March to April.

Occurrence

This plant comes from the Sarmatian - Pontian area (Turkey, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Iran), where it grows in moist, open woods.

Culture

In Europe, the Siberian squill is a popular early-flowering ornamental plant in gardens and parks. It thrives particularly in shady and semi- shady, fresh locations. Sometimes he would run wild and can then form mass stocks. There is a white form of culture.