Lilyturf
Liriope muscari (Decne.) L.H.Bailey
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Asparagaceae
Also called Liriope, Monkey grass, Big blue lilyturf, Big blue lilyturf'
Formerly Liriope gigantea, Liriope platyphylla, Liriope yingdeensis, Ophiopogon muscari
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China to Temp. E. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part, shade; RHS part, shade
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–1.5 ft; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–1.5 ft; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Purple, violetRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, violet, white; RHS purple, violet
- Coldest it survives
- -21.9 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -28.9 °C; RHS -15 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- ヤブラン
- Chinese
- 闊葉麥門冬, 土麦冬, 短莛山麦冬
- Korean
- 맥문동
- Estonian
- tihe habemätas
- Chinese (China)
- 阔叶山麦冬
- Russian
- Лириопа мускари
- Hebrew
- ליריופה כדנית
- Swedish
- mörk druvlilja
- Polish
- Liriope szafirkowata
- Finnish
- liriope
- Slovak
- liriopa modricová
- Turkish
- Çin Zambağı
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Liriope muscari (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.