Common grape hyacinth
Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 13 cm
- wide
- 10 cm
Asparagaceae
Formerly Botryanthus alpestris, Botryanthus boraeanus, Botryanthus candidus, Botryanthus compactus, and 21 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- France to UkraineKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 5 cm to 15 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- modřenec širolistý
- Welsh
- clychau dulas cryno
- Danish
- Almindelig Perlehyacint
- German
- Kleine Traubenhyazinthe, Kleines Träubel
- Spanish
- jacinto de la uva, jacinto ramoso
- Finnish
- hentohelmililja
- French
- muscari faux-botryde
- Upper Sorbian
- Mała kitelnička
- Hungarian
- Epergyöngyike
- Japanese
- ルリムスカリ
- Lithuanian
- Smulkiažiedė žydrė
- Low Saxon
- Blauwe druufjes, Kraoltjes
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Muscari botryoides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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