General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Groundcover
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Bulbs
Pollinators: Self
Various insects

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Common names
  • Starch Hyacinth
  • Southern Grape Hyacinth
  • Grape Hyacinth
  • Blue Bottle
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Muscari neglectum
  • Synonym: Muscari leucostomum

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Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-02-22
Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-02-22
Location:  Tallinn Botanic Garden, Estonia 
Date: 2023-05-20
Location: University of Tartu Botanical Gardens, Estonia 
Date: 2023-05-02
Location: Vaughan, ON, Canada (Zone 5b)
Date: 2013-05-05
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden
Date: 2023-03-25
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden
Date: 2023-03-25

Credit: Meneerke bloem | Own work

Credit: Meneerke bloem | Own work
Location: Real Jardín Botanico de Madrid
Date: 2018-04-08

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