Siberian Squill - Scilla siberica
Grows to 20cm in height, with narrow strap-shaped leaves and purplish stems bearing short racemes with 2 to 5 nodding, bowl-shaped bright blue flowers approximately 1.5 cm across.
Usually found as a casual escape from garden stock establishing from cast away bulbs.
Flowers in March.
Bulbous perennial.
Widespread scattered records from much of Britain.
Rare or rarely recorded in the wild in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Saharima Roenisch
Welford Road Cemetery
13 March 2017
Graham Calow
Aston Flamville
09 April 2018
Saharima Roenisch
Welford Road Cemetery
13 March 2017
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- Common names
- Siberian Squill
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Asparagaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 13/03/2017 (Roenisch, Saharima)
- Last record:
- 26/02/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Saharima Roenisch
Welford Road Cemetery
13 March 2017
Saharima Roenisch
Welford Road Cemetery
13 March 2017
Scilla siberica
Graham Calow
Aston Flamville
09 April 2018
Graham Calow
Aston Flamville
09 April 2018
