Muscari commutatum

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 7 separate observations

Muscari commutatum, photographed by Elliot Kulakow — fig. b Elliot Kulakow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61484144

Muscari commutatum, photographed by Anna C — fig. c Anna C, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61708065

Muscari commutatum, photographed by Sarah Faulwetter — fig. e Sarah Faulwetter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113710852

Muscari commutatum, photographed by Naturalista — fig. f Naturalista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 35837579

Muscari commutatum, photographed by Bob Walker — fig. g Bob Walker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185193690

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Muscari commutatum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Greece	GRC	EUROPE
Italy	ITA
Kriti	KRI
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Sicilia	SIC
East Aegean Is.	EAI	ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 181 in flower of 188 examined

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95%

Proportion of examined Muscari commutatum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	13	14	93%	69% to 99%
Feb	62	63	98%	92% to 100%
Mar	87	91	96%	89% to 98%
Apr	18	19	95%	75% to 99%
May	1	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Muscari commutatum 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. 181 of 188 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 13 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.

Botryanthus albovirens Tod.
Botryanthus commutatus (Guss.) Kunth
Botryanthus commutatus var. albovirens (Tod.) Nyman
Botryanthus commutatus var. lafarinae (Lojac.) Nyman
Botryanthus commutatus var. latifolius Parl.
Botryanthus lafarinae Lojac.
Botryanthus odorus var. acutilobus (Bertol.) Nyman
Hyacinthus bifolius Gouan ex Schult. & Schult.f.
Hyacinthus commutatus (Guss.) Ten.
Muscari acutilobum Bertol.
Muscari albovirens (Tod.) Nyman
Muscari lafarinae (Lojac.) C.Brullo & Brullo
Muscari levieri Heldr. ex Sommier & Levier

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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