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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Grape hyacinth
| image = Muscari_Neglectum.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''M. racemosum / neglectum''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Hyacinthaceae]]
| genus = '''''Muscari'''''
| genus_authority = [[Philip Miller|Mill.]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
about 40, including:
:''[[Muscari armeniacum]]''
:''[[Muscari aucheri]]''
:''[[Muscari azureum]]''
:''[[Muscari botryoides]]''
:''[[Muscari comosum]]''
:''[[Muscari latifolium]]''
:''[[Muscari muscarimi]]'' (=''M. moschatum'')
:''[[Muscari racemosum]]'' (= ''M. neglectum'')
}}
'''Grape hyacinths''' are a group of plants in the [[genus]] ''Muscari'' of [[plant]]s native to [[Eurasia]] that produce spikes of blue [[flower]]s resembling bunches of [[grape]]s. There are about forty species.
Some species are among the earliest to bloom in the spring, and are planted both in flower beds as well as in lawns. They tend to multiply quickly when planted in good soils.
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Image:Grape Hyacinths.jpg|An individual Grape hyacinth
Image:Muscari_armeniacum.jpg|Photo of Grape Hyacinth growing in the wild in [[Armenia]].
Image:Bluebells_And_A_Syrphid_Fly.jpg|A [[hoverfly]] clings to a grape hyacinth
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Image:grape_hyacinth.JPG|Cultivated grape hyacinths growing in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.
Image:Blauwe druif vdg.jpg|
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