Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Muscari armeniacum
Common name
Grape Hyacinth, Armenian Grape Hyacinth
Family
Asparagaceae
Where found
Garden escape, often from dumping of garden refuse. Near habitations. Mainly tablelands and ACT. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial to 0.45 m high. Leaves basal, 15–40 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, channelled along the inner face. Leaves die back after flowering. Flowers scented. Flowers producing seed 5–6 mm long, deep blue to purple with a broadly urn-shaped tube with a narrow opening, and 6 short paler or white lobes. Flowers not producing seed wholly blue, 2–4 mm long, with an oval tube. Flowers in crowded elongated clusters 3–6 cm long. Flowers early spring.
Family Hyacinthaceae in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Muscari~armeniacum (accessed 20 April 2021)
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