Gagea pratensis explained

Gagea pratensis, called the yellow star-of-Bethlehem,^[1] is a European and Mediterranean plant species in the lily family. It is widespread across much of Europe as well as Turkey and Morocco.^[2] It was first described to science by Persoon in 1794.^[3]

Gagea pratensis is a bulb-forming perennial. Flowers are generally yellow, sometimes with a green stripe along the backside of each tepal.^[4]

formerly included^[2]

• Gagea pratensis var. paczoskii, now called Gagea transversalis

External links

• Czech Botany, Gagea pratensis in Czech with color photo
• Tela Botanica in French, with color photo plus French distribution map
• Wilde Plante in Nederland en België in Dutch with several color photos
• Latvijas daba, Pļavas Zeltstarīte, Gagea pratensis in Latvian with color photo

Notes and References

1. http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/yellow-star-of-bethlehem Naturegate, Yellow Star of Bethlehem, Gagea pratensis
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=307374 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. 1794. Annalen der Botanick. ed. Usteri 11: 8l, as Ornithogalum pratense
4. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=gagea+pratensis Altervista Flora Italiana, Cipollaccio giallo dei prati, Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort.