| Description | Striped Squill (Puschkinia scilloides Libanotica) is a relatively short plant with white flowers accented with a blue stripe. Naturalizes by seeds and bulb offsets, creating drifts of color in time. |
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| Plant Type | Bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizoms, etc. |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average, moist, dry in the summer |
| Soil & Site | well drained |
| Flowers | pale blue to white, star-shaped flowers with deep blue midveins, each flower petal has a blue inside center stripe, borne in terminal racemes |
| Leaves | two dark green strap-shaped green, from base |
| Stems | small bulbs |
| Dimensions | 6 inches tall, spreads |
| Maintenance | remove yellow foliage; leaving blooms will increase reseeding; plant 2-3 inches apart at a depth of around 3-4 inches |
| Propagation | division of bulb offsets, seeds |
| Native Site | Turkey, Lebanon |
| Misc Facts | Genus name honors Russian Count Mussin-Puschkin who died in 1805. |
| Author's Notes | Seems to be some confusion between Lebanon Squill and Striped Squill. They are close to the same plant and many times clumped together, |
| Notes & Reference | #59-Naturalizing Bulbs (Rob Proctor), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens website (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org), #146-Early Bulbs (Rod Leeds) |
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