Muscari aucheri (Boiss.) Baker Gök Müşkürüm

Muscari aucheri (Boiss.) Baker - Gök Müşkürüm

Scientific Description:

Bulb 1−3 cm diam., usually without offsets; tunics pale pinkish-brown. Leaves 2−3(−4), erecto-patent or falcate, oblanceolate, 5−20(−30) cm × 2−15(17) mm, apex cucullate and shortly acuminate, upper surface glaucescent. Scape erect, 5−30 cm, often overtopping leaves. Raceme dense, ovoid to oblong, few−to many−flowered, 1−3 cm × 7−12 mm. Pedicels of fertile flowers patent to ± deflexed, 1−2.5 mm, usually shorter than flowers. Fertile flowers globose to obovoid, 3−5 × 2.3−5 mm, bright sky blue, constricted; lobes white or pale blue, 0.5−0.75 mm, scarcely recurved. Stamens biseriate, inserted at and above middle of perianth tube. Sterile flowers shortly pedicellate, larger or smaller than fertile flowers, few to many, 2.5−6 mm. Fruiting raceme remaining compact, often as broad as long. Capsule obovate-orbicular, emarginate. Seeds 2 mm broad.

 

Flowering Time: April−June.

Habitat: Stony slopes and limestone scree, mountain pastures, flushes, sometimes with Pinus sylvestris L. or Juniperus communis L. var. saxatilis Pall., 1000−3000 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH & Stuart DC (1984). Muscari aucheri (Boiss.) Baker, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 254–255.

Public Description:

Muscari aucheri, is an endemic species to Türkiye and known as “gök müşkürüm” in Turkish. A large number of small flowers in the sky blue colours are clustered together. It is a perennial plant with bulbs enclosed by pale pink or brown crusted tunics which are 1−3 cm in diameter under the soil. They are used as ornamental plants due to their flamboyant flowers. It grows widely in Türkiye especially in grassy alpine areas over 1000 m. It can be seen in flower between April and June.

 

References:

Anonymous (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscari_aucheri/Accessed date: 14.03.2017.

Eker İ (2012). Muscari Mill., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 98–100.