Scilla siberica

Plant Characteristics

Habit		bulbous
Height:	⇕	6 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Width:	⇔	3 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Bloom:	❀	early spring, mid spring, late spring

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun
Features:	✓	flowers
USDA Zones:		2 to 8
Flower features:	❀	blue, purple

Scientific Names

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Siberian squill (Scilla siberica), also known as wood squill or spring beauty, is a bulbous perennial native to Siberia flowering in early spring. It naturalizes rapidly from seed.

Flowers have six petals and six stamens, and are arranged singly or in racemes of 2 or 3.

Most specimens have blue flowers, but the variety alba is white. The stamens of Scilla are separate, unlike those of the related genera Puschkinia and Chionodoxa, and pollen is the same color as the flower.

After flowering, the flower stems become limp and seedpods form. At maturity, the pods become purple and split open, releasing small, dark brown seeds. When seed is mature, the leaves wither and the plant goes dormant till the next spring.

Seedlings are small and hollow-leaved.

At 15 cm (6 in), Siberian squill is suitable to be planted in grass, and will form large colonies that go dormant by the time grass needs to be mowed.

Gallery

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  seed pods

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  bulbs

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  Klepacza Park in Łodz, Poland

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