Bellevalia romana(L.) Sweet

WFO wfo-0000761508 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bellevalia romana, photographed by Serena De Santis
fig. a Serena De Santis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 192375608
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Mattia Aaron Miroddi
fig. b Mattia Aaron Miroddi, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188733020
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115288567
Bellevalia romana, photographed by silk128
fig. d silk128, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33296152
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Tania Walisch
fig. e Tania Walisch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188234970
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. f Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187922599
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. g Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187097247
Bellevalia romana, photographed by Alessandra Lugaresi
fig. h Alessandra Lugaresi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118025633

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Bellevalia romana is native: Egypt, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia EgyptCorseFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Sicilia
Native distribution of Bellevalia romana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Corse COR EUROPE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC
Egypt EGY AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 173 in flower of 178 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Bellevalia romana observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 173 of 178 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bellevalia appendiculata Lapeyr.
  • Bellevalia cyanoleuca St.-Lag.
  • Bellevalia operculata Lapeyr.
  • Hyacinthus romanus L.
  • Rytidolobus appendiculatus (Lapeyr.) Dulac
  • Scilla romana (L.) Ker Gawl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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