List of Scilla species explained
This list of Scilla species shows the accepted species names within the genus Scilla, which are predominantly spring perennial plants in the order of Asparagales, and the Asparagaceae (amaryllis) family. The common name is squill, but this has also been applied to a number of taxa not included in Scilla.
The number of species varies from 30 to about 80, depending on how narrowly or widely the genus is defined. In the narrow circumscription (e.g Speta 1998) a number of species are segregated into eight separate smaller genera. Species of Chionodoxa are often included with Scilla and some classifications list those as a separate section of the genus Scilla (section Chionodoxa) (sec, all other species being included in section Scilla.
List
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:
- Scilla achtenii
- Scilla africana
- Scilla albanica
- Scilla albinerve
- Scilla alinihatiana
- Scilla amoena – star squill, star hyacinth
- Scilla andria
- Scilla antunesii
- Scilla arenaria
- Scilla arsusiana
- Scilla begoniifolia
- Scilla benguellensis
- Scilla berthelotii
- Scilla bifolia – alpine squill
- Scilla bilgineri
- Scilla bithynica – Bithynian squill
- Scilla buekkensis
- Scilla bussei
- Scilla chlorantha
- Scilla ciliata
- Scilla cilicica
- Scilla congesta
- Scilla cretica, syn. Chionodoxa cretica
- Scilla cydonia
- Scilla dimartinoi
- Scilla dualaensis
- Scilla engleri
- Scilla flaccidula
- Scilla forbesii, syn. Chionodoxa forbesii
- Scilla gabunensis
- Scilla gracillima
- Scilla haemorrhoidalis
- Scilla hildebrandtii
- Scilla huanica
- Scilla hyacinthoides
- Scilla ingridiae
- Scilla jaegeri
- Scilla katendensis
- Scilla kladnii
- Scilla kurdistanica
- Scilla lakusicii
- Scilla latifolia
- Scilla laxiflora
- Scilla ledienii
- Scilla leepii
- Scilla libanotica
- Scilla lilio-hyacinthus – Pyrenean squill
- Scilla litardierei, syn. Chouardia litardierei, Scilla amethystina, Scilla pratensis, Scilla albanica, Scilla italica – amethyst meadow squill, Dalmatian scilla
- Scilla lochiae, syn. Chionodoxa lochiae
- Scilla longistylosa
- Scilla luciliae, syn. Chionodoxa luciliae
- Scilla lucis
- Scilla madeirensis – Madeiran squill
- Scilla melaina
- Scilla merinoi
- Scilla mesopotamica
- Scilla messeniaca
- Scilla mischtschenkoana, syn. Scilla tubergeniana – Tubergen squill
- Scilla monanthos
- Scilla monophyllos
- Scilla morrisii
- Scilla nana, syn. Chionodoxa nana
- Scilla nivalis
- Scilla oubangluensis
- Scilla paui
- Scilla peruviana – Portuguese squill, corymbose squill, Cuban lily
- Scilla petersii
- Scilla platyphylla
- Scilla pleiophylla
- Scilla pneumonanthe
- Scilla reuteri
- Scilla rosenii
- Scilla sardensis, syn. Chionodoxa sardensis
- Scilla schweinfurthii
- Scilla siberica – Siberian squill
- Scilla simiarum
- Scilla sodalicia
- Scilla subnivalis
- Scilla tayloriana
- Scilla textilis
- Scilla uyuiensis
- Scilla vardaria
- Scilla verdickii
- Scilla verna – spring squill
- Scilla villosa
- Scilla vindobonensis
- Scilla voethorum
- Scilla welwitschii
- Scilla werneri
Hybrids
A hybrid has been named:
Renamed within genus Scilla
Formerly included
The common bluebell of British and European bluebell woods, still occasionally referred to by a former name, Scilla non-scripta, is now known as Hyacinthoides non-scripta. Several African species previously classified in Scilla have been removed to the genus Ledebouria. The best known of these is the common houseplant still sometimes known as Scilla violacea but now properly Ledebouria socialis.
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