Scilla siberica information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Scilla siberica Andrews

Genus: Scilla
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Scilloideae tribe: Hyacintheae subtribe: Hyacinthinae. Also placed in: Hyacinthaceae Liliaceae
Nomen number: 33349
Place of publication: Bot. Repos. 6: t. 365. 1804
Comment: authorship of names in this work follows Melbourne ICN Art. 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Name verified on: 10-Feb-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-May-2013
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.

Common names:

Siberian squill (Source: B. Mathew, p.c.) – English

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide F Eur; Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)

Distributional range:

Native:

ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Iran [n.w.]; Iraq [n.]; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
EUROPE
East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part [s.w.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]

Naturalized:

naturalized elsewhere

Cultivated:

also cultivated

References:

Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [lists as S. siberica Andr.].
Mathew, B. F. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Scilla siberica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Scilla siberica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Scilla siberica.

Check other web resources for Scilla siberica Andrews:

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

PlantSystematics.org
Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33349 (24 May 2013)

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