Muscari tenuiflorum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Muscari tenuiflorum, photographed by Pavel Kacl — fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203602500

Muscari tenuiflorum, photographed by Florencia Grattarola — fig. h Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136054225

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Native distribution of Muscari tenuiflorum, 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
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Hungary	HUN
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Romania	ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Ukraine	UKR
Iran	IRN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq	IRQ
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
North Caucasus	NCS
Palestine	PAL
Saudi Arabia	SAU
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR

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 135 in flower of 142 examined

92%

97%

Proportion of examined Muscari tenuiflorum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	4	4	too few examined
May	58	63	92%	83% to 97%
Jun	70	72	97%	90% to 99%
Jul	3	3	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 Jun. Each bar is the share of Muscari tenuiflorum 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. 135 of 142 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 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 14 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 tenuiflora (Tausch) Nyman
Hyacinthus tenuiflorus (Tausch) E.H.L.Krause
Leopoldia tenuiflora (Tausch) Heldr.
Leopoldia tubiflora (Steven) Juz.
Muscari alpinum J.Gay ex Baker
Muscari bushiricum Parsa
Muscari comosum var. tenuiflorum (Tausch) W.Mast.
Muscari iranicum Parsa
Muscari laxum Freyn
Muscari persicum Hausskn. & Bornm. ex Bornm. & Gauba
Muscari tenuiflorum var. flavescens Priszter
Muscari tubiflorum Steven
Muscari wallii Rech.f.
Muscarimia alpina (J.Gay ex Baker) Garbari

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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