Muscari parviflorumDesf.

WFO wfo-0000694965 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Mark Pritchard
fig. a Mark Pritchard, CC0 1.0 / 2019-10-19 / obs. 54426572
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28596268
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28258499
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28596315
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28258540
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Dr. Guido Bohne
fig. f Dr. Guido Bohne, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54508460
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Astra
fig. g Astra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55696178
Muscari parviflorum, photographed by Astra
fig. h Astra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55696189

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Muscari parviflorum is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSpain Baleares
Native distribution of Muscari parviflorum, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
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 54 in flower of 57 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Muscari parviflorum 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. 54 of 57 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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.

  • Botryanthus autumnalis (Guss.) Heynh.
  • Botryanthus parviflorus (Desf.) Kunth
  • Hyacinthus parviflorus (Desf.) Pers.
  • Muscari autumnale Guss.
  • Muscari cilicicum Kotschy
  • Muscari filifolium Wahlenb.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.