Ornithogalum umbellatum
star-of-Bethlehem, common star-of-Bethlehem, Garden Star-of-Bethlehem, Nap-at-noon, Sleepy-dick, Sleepydick, Star Of Bethlehem, Pyrenees Star-of-bethlehem, Summer Snowflake, Réalta na Beithile (planda), Grass Lily, Eleven-o'clock Lady, Dove's dung, Réalta na Beithile, Ornithogalum umbellatum
Description
Bulbous plant with conspicuous spring-summer flowering of an intense orange colour, very prolonged.
Each plant produces two, sometimes three, inflorescences.
There are also cultivars with yellow and white flowers on the market.
The inflorescence can also be used as a cut flower.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Ornithogalum
- Species
- Ornithogalum umbellatum
Synonyms (1)
- Hyacinthus umbellatus
