三花顶冰花Gagea triflora

  • Scientific Name: Gagea triflora (Ledeb.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Ref: J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 7: 551 1829.
  • Chinese Common Name: 三花顶冰花 sānhuā dǐngbīnghuā, 三花萝蒂 sānhuā luódì, 三花洼瓣花 sānhuā wābànhuā
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Gagea
  • Distribution: Thickets, grassy slopes, hillsides along ravines. Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi [Japan, Korea, Russia].
Plants 15--30 cm tall. Bulb ca. 6 mm in diam. Basal leaf 1, narrowly linear, 1--1.5 mm wide; cauline leaves 1--3(or 4), basal one narrowly lanceolate, 3.5--7 cm × 4--6 mm. Inflorescence 2--4-flowered. Tepals white, greenish veined, linear to oblanceolate, 1--1.2 cm × 1.7--2.2 mm. Stamens ca. 1/2 as long as tepals. Style 3--4 mm; stigma capitate, indistinctly 3-lobed. Capsule obovoid, 3-angled, ca. 1/3 as long as enlarged, persistent tepals. Seeds globose. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul. (Flora of China)

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