Flora of East-Central Indiana

Grape Hyacinth
Scientific Name Muscari botryoides  (L.) Mill.
Family Name Liliaceae (Lily Family)

 

Characteristics
Habitat: fields and roadsides
Plant Height: 15-30 cm tall scape (flowering stem), underground stem a bulb
Flower Color: blue/purple with white tips
Flower: 3-locular superior ovary; 6 connate sepals; single style with 3-lobed stigma; 6 stamens adnate at base of perianth
Inflorescence: terminal, dense raceme; typically fertile and sterile flowers in inflorescence; sterile flowers smaller and at apex of inflorescence
Fruit: 3-angled capsule
Leaves: basal; linear; entire
Bloom Time: April-May
Origins: non-native
Other: also known as English Bluebell; this European native has escaped cultivation
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general habit raceme form

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