Hyacinthoides non-scripta
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta is a bulbous perennial plant found in Atlantic areas from the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It
Hyacinthoides non scripta
H. non-scripta has dark flowers in one-sided, nodding racemes, with strongly recurved petals and white pollen.
H. hispanica has paler flowers produced on all sides of the upright stem, less recurved petals and blue pollen.
Bluebells in Pryor's Wood, Hertfordshire
Bluebell wood
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A bluebell wood is a woodland that in springtime has a carpet of flowering bluebells underneath a newly forming leaf canopy. The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is sup
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
…H. non-scripta is particularly associated with ancient woodland where it may dominate the understory to produce carpets of violet–blue flowers in "bluebell woods", but also occurs in more open habitats in western regions. It is protected under UK law, and in some other parts of its range. A related species, H…
A bluebell wood, near Lampeter in Wales
Hallerbos, Belgium
Bluebell wood in May, Buckinghamshire, England