Grape Hyacinth

Muscari latifolium Asparagaceae

Growth habit

Geophyte

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Southern and Western Asia

Location

Hillside Garden

Source of plant

Van Engelen, Brent & Becky's Bulbs, Van Bourgondien

Description

Scape reaches 30-40 cm in height; bulbs usually with one rarely two 2cm wide leaves. Racemes oblong, loose, 10-many flowered. The infertile apical flowers are sessile, tubular, violet-blue; the lower flowers are oblong-ovate, blackish-violet.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4