Muscari botryoides ? (USA)

Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill., in Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 1 (1768);
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France to Ukraine: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia, Switzerland, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine; Introduced into: Alabama, Arkansas, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Great Britain, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin as per POWO;
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Muscari botryoides from California-GS19082025-1: 5 high res. images.
Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill,, garden ornamental herb photographed from Ardenwood, Fremont, California in March, 2023.


Why not
https://efloraofindia.com/efi/muscari-armeniacum/?


The most important difference between the two species being that tips of perianth are recurved in M. botryoides, but erect in M. armeniacum; fls are ca 3 mm long in M. botryoides, 6-8 mm M. armeniacum; leaves equalling the scape in M. botryoides, exceeding in M. armeniacum.


 

Are the leaves not exceeding the scape here?


 

 


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References:
POWO

Updated on October 4, 2025