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Hyacinth subfamily
Scilloideae
Scilloideae (named after the genus Scilla, "squill") is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family Asparagaceae. Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the genus Hyacinthus. Scilloideae or Hyacinthaceae include many familiar garden plants such as Hyacinthus (hyacinths), Hyacinthoides (bluebells), Muscari (grape hyacinths) and Scilla and Puschkinia (squills or scillas). Some are important as cut flowers.
10 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
hyacinth tribe
tribeHyacintheae
star-of-Bethlehem tribe
tribeOrnithogaleae
poison squill tribe
tribeUrgineeae
Oziroeeae
tribeOziroeeae
Resnova
genusResnova
Fessia
genusFessia
Capebluebell
genusSpetaea
Zagrosia
genusZagrosia
Namophila
genusNamophila
Occultia
genusOccultia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 507998.