Muscari comosum(L.) Mill.

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WFO wfo-0000693046 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Muscari comosum, photographed by luluchouette
fig. a luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 204186724
Muscari comosum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199371534
Muscari comosum, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. c Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197462057
Muscari comosum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. d Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193741370
Muscari comosum, photographed by Serena De Santis
fig. e Serena De Santis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192935698
Muscari comosum, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. f Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194777338
Muscari comosum, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. g Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194768318
Muscari comosum, photographed by Felicia Seichter
fig. h Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194665808

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Muscari comosum is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Muscari comosum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 3,679 in flower of 4,177 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Muscari comosum 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. 3,679 of 4,177 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 67 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 bouviana Heldr. ex Nyman
  • Bellevalia calandriniana (Parl.) Nyman
  • Bellevalia comosa (L.) Kunth
  • Bellevalia graeca Heldr.
  • Bellevalia graminifolia Nyman
  • Bellevalia holzmannii Heldr.
  • Bellevalia holzmannii var. curta (Heldr.) Nyman
  • Bellevalia pharmacusana (Heldr.) Nyman
  • Bellevalia pinardi Boiss.
  • Bellevalia sartoriana (Heldr.) Nyman
  • Bellevalia sartoriana subsp. pharmacusana (Heldr.) Nyman
  • Bellevalia tenuiflora subsp. constricta (Tausch) Nyman
  • Botrycomus vulgaris Fourr.
  • Etheiranthus constrictus (Tausch) Kostel.
  • Etheiranthus milleri Kostel.
  • Etheiranthus milleri var. monstrosus Kostel.
  • Eubotrys comosus (L.) Raf.
  • Hyacinthus comosus L.
  • Hyacinthus fuliginosus Pall.
  • Hyacinthus monstrosus L.
  • Hyacinthus paniculatus Lam.
  • Leopoldia anguliflora Lojac.
  • Leopoldia bormaniana Lojac.
  • Leopoldia bouviana Heldr. ex Nyman

and 43 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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