Fritillaria graeca

Fritillaria graeca is a European plant species in the Lily family, Liliaceae.[3] It is native to the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria,[4] North Macedonia, and Greece).[5] Some older literature says that the plant can also be found in Serbia, but all these collections are of var. gussichiae, now regarded as a distinct species called Fritillaria gussichiae.[6]

Fritillaria graeca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Liliaceae
Genus:
Fritillaria
Species:
F. graeca
Binomial name
Fritillaria graeca
Boiss. & Spruner
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Fritillaria graeca var. guicciardii (Heldr. & Sart.) Boiss.
  • Fritillaria graeca var. unicolor Halácsy
  • Fritillaria guicciardii Heldr. & Sart.
  • Fritillaria zahnii Heldr.

Fritillaria graeca has flowers with red and white stripes and looks much like small bells - one on each stem. It blooms between April and May. It reaches a height of around 25 cm.[7][8]

Subspecies[1][2]
  • Fritillaria graeca subsp. graeca - eastern + southern Greece including Crete
  • Fritillaria graeca subsp. thessala (Boiss.) Rix[9] - Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, northern Greece
formerly included[1]

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Fritillaria graecasubsp. thessala
  3. "Fritillaria graeca Boiss. & Spruner". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  4. "Tisata Reserve". Official Site of Pirin National Park. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Fritillaria graeca
  6. Tomovic, G., S. Vukojicic, M. Niketic, B. Zlatkovic, V. Strevanovic. 2007. Fritillaria (Liliaceae) in Serbia: distribution, habitats, and some taxonomic notes. Phytologica Balcanica 13 (3):359-370
  7. Boissier, Pierre Edmond & Wilhelm von Spruner. 1846. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 1, 7: 104.
  8. Micevski, Kiril. 1987. Acta Botanica Croatica 37: 212, as Fritillaria ionica var. ochridana from Croatia
  9. Rix, Edward Martin. 1978. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 356.


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