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It is a persistent garden plantwhich spreads where tossed out. The lower fertile flowers are 2.5 - 5mm long and 2.5-4mm wide, bright-blue (rather than deep dull-blue) but the 6 lobes are white. The racemes are densely populated and between 1cm to 6cm long. Compact Grape-hyacinth ( Muscari botryoides) Slightly shorter stems to 25cm with leaves up to 20cm long but conspicuously broadening at the tip.Garden Grape-Hyacinth ( Muscari armeniacum) very similar, but the lower fertile flowers are 3.5-5.5mm and bright-blue (a colour like the bright-blue of the upper infertile flowers on Grape-hyacinth).

Some similarities to 3 other (non-native) Grape-hyacinths: Not to be semantically confused with : Water Hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes) nor with Pyrenean Squill ( Scilla lilio-hyacinthus) Each flower is on a short petiole (stalk) which has a minute bract near the stem (best seen amidst the smaller infertile flowers are the top). The small opening at the end of the flower is white to lilac in colour and consists of 6 curled-back very short tepals. The flowers droop downwards obscuring their stamens and style. Unlike hyacinths, the flowers are ovoidal and only splay out into 6 very-short 'petals' (actually tepals) right at the end. The dark-blue flowers are the largest and are fertile whereas the sky-blue ones are smaller and infertile and the first to wither and shrivel (leftmost flower spike). The fertile flowers are between 3.5 to 7.5mm long and 1.5 to 3.5mm wide. The flower spike is in a dense raceme between 1.5 to 5cm long.

Grape-hyacinth leaves are between 2-8mm wide, linear to oblanceolate and up to 30cm long Some of the leaves here belong to Grape-hyacinth the thinner or broader ones are grasses. The individual flowers are said to be shaped and coloured like grapes, hence the common name Grape-hyacinth. The topmost flowers are sky-blue and infertile. It grows to 30cm high, with a dense inflorescence in a spike near the top. It is the only native Grape-hyacinth the 3 others are introduced and naturalised. GRAPE HYACINTH GRAPE-HYACINTH Muscari neglectum Asparagus Family Ī perennial plant which grows from an underground bulb. Hyacinth (Grape) / Grape Hyacinth / Grape Hyacinth - Wild Flower Finder