Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Asparagaceae Juss.
Genus
Hyacinthoides Heist. ex Fabr.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard ex Rothm., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 53: 14 (1944)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Hyacinthus non-scriptus L., Sp. Pl. 316–317 (1753) – as non scriptus
  • ≡ Scilla non-scripta (L.) Hoffmans & Link (1803)
  • ≡ Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 81: 625 (1934) nom. inval.
Vernacular Name(s):
Bluebell; English bluebell
 Description

Clump-forming perennial, 15–45 cm high Bulb ± globose, 2–3 cm diam., scales papery, grey-brown. Leaves (15)–30–40–(60) × 0.7–2.5 cm, 5–6 from each bulb, slender at base, broader and flat above, narrowing ± abruptly at tip, margins glabrous. Flowers 1.5–2 cm long, blue, white, or heliotrope, ± campanulate, in few-flowered, ± erect racemes; pedicels curved, usually < flowers; bract and bracteole membranous, of same colour as flower; segments ± connate at base, Stamens inserted at 2 levels on perianth. Capsule c. 1.5 cm long, ovoid to globose.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3 as Scilla non-scripta (L.) Hoffmans & Link]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Chouard, P. 1934: Les noms linnéens des Scilla et des Endymio et leur véritable signification. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 81(4): 620–630.
Hobbs, J.; Hatch, T. 1994: Bulbs for New Zealand Gardens. Godwit Press, Auckland.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Rothmaler, W.H.P. 1944: Nomina generica neglecta 1753–1763. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 53: 1–37.
Tutin, T.G.; Heywood, V.H.; Burges, N.A.; Moore, D.M.; Valentine, D.H.; Walters, S.M.; Webb, D.A. (ed.) 1964–1993: Flora Europaea. Cambridge University Press.