Gagea fragifera (Vill.) Ehr.Bayer & G.López

Gagée de Liotard (fr), Gagée fistuleuse (fr), Gagée porte-fraise (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Gagea

Characteristics

Plants 8--15 cm tall. Bulb ovoid-globose, 5--8 mm in diam.; tunic brown-yellow, papery; bulbels absent. Leaves basal only, 1 or 2, semiterete, fistulose, 7--20 cm × 3--4 mm. Inflorescence usually 3--5-flowered, umbellate. Floral leaf broadly lanceolate, slightly shorter than or equaling inflorescence, 6--10 mm wide. Pedicels unequal, pilose. Tepals yellow adaxially, yellow-green abaxially, narrowly oblong. 1--2 cm × 3--4 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 5--10 mm. Style nearly as long as ovary. Capsule obovoid, trigonous, ca. 1/2 as long as enlarged, persistent tepals. Seeds globose. Fl. and fr. Apr--May.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Spread barochory
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Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.14
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Soil humidity 5-9
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Cultivation

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Images

Habit

Gagea fragifera habit picture by Pierre Meunier (cc-by-sa)
Gagea fragifera habit picture by francois tissot (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Gagea fragifera leaf picture by Pierre Meunier (cc-by-sa)
Gagea fragifera leaf picture by Johannes Fischer (cc-by-sa)
Gagea fragifera leaf picture by francois tissot (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Gagea fragifera flower picture by Marie-Paule Sottiaux (cc-by-sa)
Gagea fragifera flower picture by Pierre DIDIER-LAURENT (cc-by-sa)
Gagea fragifera flower picture by Thomas Rüegsegger (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Gagea fragifera world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, China, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Montenegro, Pakistan, Romania, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:947148-1
WFO ID wfo-0000768469
COL ID 6JW6Y
BDTFX ID 28633
INPN ID 99180
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Ornithogalum erubescens Gagea anisanthos Gagea brentae Gagea samojedorum Gagea turcomanica Ornithoxanthum liotardi Ornithogalum liotardi Stellaster liotardii Gagea emarginata Gagea erubescens Gagea lasczinskyi Gagea liotardi Gagea mirabilis Gagea fistulosa f. decandolleana Ornithogalum fragiferum Gagea intermedia Gagea saxatilis Ornithogalum minimum var. fragiferum Gagea fistulosa var. dyris Gagea minima subsp. intermedia Gagea liotardii subsp. erubescens Gagea fistulosa var. fragerifera Gagea lutea var. brentae Gagea fistulosa subsp. liotardii Gagea fragifera