Muscari armeniacum
Muscari armeniacum
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Bulb 1-2.5 cm, diam., with or without offsets. Leaves 3-5, linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate , 10-30 cm x 1-5 mm, upper surface green, without a white line. Scape 10-40 cm. Raceme dense to very dense, ovate to cylindrical with imbricate flowers, 1.5-4 x 1-1.5 cm, elongating and lax in fruit. Fertile flowers obovoid to oblong-urceolate, 3.5-5.5 x 2-3 mm, sky blue or violet-tinged, constricted distaJly; lobes white or paler than tube , 0.5-1 mm. Stamens biseriate, attached at and above middle of tube. Sterile flowers few, paler and concolorous. Fruiting raceme elongate and lax. Capsule obovate-orbicuiar, 4-6 x 4-7 mm, subemarginate. Seeds 1.8-2.2 mm diam. 2n=18. Fl. 3-5. Limestone slopes, rock outcrops, sometimes on serpentine or schist, often in Juniperus scrub, Pinus brutia forest with Quercus, Pinus sylvestris woods, Sarcopoterium spinosum phrygana, pastures, sand dunes, s.l.-2750 m.
Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Caucasia; N.W. Iran?
Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Caucasia; N.W. Iran?
