Italian Bluebell
| Italian Bluebell | |
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| Plate 663 from The Botanical Magazine | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| clade: | Angiosperms |
| clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Scilloideae |
| Genus: | Hyacinthoides |
| Species: | H. italica |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyacinthoides italica (L.) Chouard ex Rothm. |
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The Italian Bluebell or Italian Squill (Hyacinthoides italica, syn. Endymion italicus or Scilla italica), is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial native to the central Mediterranean region in northwestern Italy, southern France and northeastern Spain. It is one of around 11 species in the genus Hyacinthoides, others including the Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in northwestern Europe, and the Spanish Bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica) further west in the Iberian Peninsula.[1]
It is in some respects intermediate between the Common and Spanish species in having slender leaves (as in H. non-scripta or even slenderer, 3-12 mm broad), but a dense, conical flowering raceme 10-40 cm tall (as in H. hispanica; not sparse and one-sided as in H. non-scripta).
[edit] References
- ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do, retrieved 2011-07-05, search for "Hyacinthoides"
- Huxley, A. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening vol. 2: 604. Macmillan.
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