Muscari botryoides, SE: Pärlhyacint, DE: Kleine Traubenhyazinthe ,
NL: Blauwe druifjes, UK: Compact Grape-hyacinth

Scientific name:  Muscari botryoides (L.) Mill.
Swedish name:  Pärlhyacint
German name:  Kleine Traubenhyazinthe
Nederlandse naam:  Blauwe druifjes
English name:  Compact Grape-hyacinth
Family:  Hyacinthaceae, Hyacintväxter

Sweden Flowers, Muscari botryoides, Pärlhyacint, Kleine Traubenhyazinthe, Blauwe druifjes, Compact Grape-hyacinth

Life form:  Bulbous perennial herb
Stems:  Height 7-25cm, leafless stalk
Leaves:  Basal rosette, 2–3 leaves, rigid, erect; blade linear–spatulate, keel-tipped, flat, parallel-veined, entire margin.
Flowers:  Perianth subglobose to urcreolate, blue-purple, glabrous, of united parts, to 6mm long, with 6 small lobes at apex. Lobes white, 1mm long. Stamens 6, adnate to base of perianth, included. Style 1, included. Stigma 3-lobed. Ovary superior, 3-locular
Flowering Period:  May
Fruits:  Capsules 3-angled, glabrous, glaucous, 5mm long and broad. Seeds 2 per locule, black
Habitat:  Yards, parks, gardens, pastures, old homesites, roadsides, railroads, wasteland, dumps, broadleaf woods
Distribution:  Southern Sweden

Muscari botryoides, Pärlhyacint, Kleine Traubenhyazinthe, Blauwe druifjes, Compact Grape-hyacinth


Derivation of the botanical name:
Muscari, grape-hyacint; Greek moschus, musk; an allusion to the sweet scent of some species. Umberto Quattrocchi says: A Turkish name recorded by Clusius in 1583. Latin muscus, i "moss, musk."
botryoides, Greek botrys grape and Latin -oides like; like a bunch of grapes.
  • The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.