Forbes' Glory-of-the-snow
ചിയോനോഡോക്സ സീഹെ
Scilla forbesii (Baker) Speta
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 10 cm
Asparagaceae
Also called Forbes' glory-of-the-snow
Formerly Chionodoxa forbesii, Chionodoxa siehei, Chionodoxa tmolusi, Scilla siehei, and 1 more
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
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & S. TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, violet, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Swedish
- vårstjärna
- Norwegian Bokmål
- snøstjerne
- Finnish
- kirjokevättähti
- German
- Große Sternhyazinthe, Forbes-Blaustern
- Russian
- Хионодокса Форбса
- Estonian
- Forbesi kirgaslill
- Dutch
- Grote sneeuwroem
- Danish
- Almindelig snepryd
- Czech
- ladoňka zářící
- Chinese (China)
- 雪光花
- French
- Scille de Forbes
- Polish
- cebulica Forbesa
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Scilla forbesii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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