Gagea

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Gagea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Gagea (Sir Thomas Gage, British botanist, died 1820). Liliaceae. Seventy-five or more small herbs of Eu., N. Afr. and east to China and Japan, allied to Ornithogalum, mostly hardy and sometimes grown in the open. Fls. white, yellow or rose, few on the top of the mostly low peduncle or scape: lvs. radical, mostly only 1, and sometimes on the st. and represented by bracts under the umbel: perianth persistent, with distinct seems.; stamens 6; ovary sessile or short-stipitate, 3-loculed: bulbs small. The gageas require the cult, of ornithogalums. They appear not to be in the American trade. G. liotardii, Schult. f., the gold-star, is from Eu. and eastward; a well-recommended alpine, 4-6 in. high, with yellow fls., making grassy mats: radical lf. usually 1, fistulose; scape-lvs. 2, one of them larger and at base convolute.— G. lutea, Ker (G. fascicularia, Salisb.), the yellow star-of-Beth- lehem has yellow fls. with backs of segms. green, opening only in forenoon: radical lf. 1, linear, 6- 18in. long: scape short, with 1- 3 bracts. Eu. to Himalayas. B.M. 1200. G. bracteolaris, Salisb. (G. stenopetola, Reichb.), is pale yellow: lf. 1 at base, linear-lanceolate and glaucous; st.- lvs. opposite, lanceolate, pubescent and fringed. Eu. L. H. B. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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