Squilla aphylla

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Squilla aphylla, photographed by Edmundas Greimas — fig. c Edmundas Greimas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174167169

Squilla aphylla, photographed by Dan Horowitz — fig. d Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145535871

Squilla aphylla, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis — fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108690120

Squilla aphylla, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28737586

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Squilla aphylla, 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
Cyprus	CYP	ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is.	EAI
Iran	IRN
Iraq	IRQ
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
Palestine	PAL
Saudi Arabia	SAU
Sinai	SIN
Türkiye	TUR
Egypt	EGY	AFRICA

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 111 in flower of 216 examined

69%

81%

85%

11%

Proportion of examined Squilla aphylla in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	15	7%	1% to 30%
Feb	1	12	8%	1% to 35%
Mar	0	13	0%	0% to 23%
Apr	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
May	0	1	too few examined
Jun	0	1	too few examined
Jul	1	1	too few examined
Aug	11	16	69%	44% to 86%
Sep	54	67	81%	70% to 88%
Oct	41	48	85%	73% to 93%
Nov	2	18	11%	3% to 33%
Dec	0	19	0%	0% to 17%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Squilla aphylla 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. 111 of 216 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 7 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.

Anthericum aphyllum Forssk.
Charybdis aphylla (Forssk.) Speta
Charybdis elata (Andrews) Speta
Drimia aphylla (Forssk.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
Drimia excelsa J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
Ornithogalum elatum Andrews
Urginea aphylla (Forssk.) Speta

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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