Scilla bithynicaBoiss.

WFO wfo-0000741016 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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.

Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. a katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-03-27 / obs. 3846412
Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. b katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120466641
Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. c katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14649046
Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. d katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3846413
Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. e katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6991123
Scilla bithynica, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. f Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183780689
Scilla bithynica, photographed by katunchik
fig. g katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121536490
Scilla bithynica, photographed by olha_chusova
fig. h olha_chusova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199180910

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Scilla bithynica is native: Türkiye, Bulgaria TürkiyeBulgaria
Native distribution of Scilla bithynica, 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
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE

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.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Pfosseria bithynica (Boiss.) Speta
  • Scilla bithynica subsp. linea Speta
  • Scilla bithynica subsp. paphlagonica Speta
  • Scilla bithynica subsp. radkae (Davidov) Speta
  • Scilla radkae Davidov

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.