Sspring starflower

Ipheion uniflorum

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  • Sspring starflower
  • Sspring starflower
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  • Sspring starflower
  • Sspring starflower
  • Flower name
    Sspring starflower
  • Scientific name
    Ipheion uniflorum
  • AliasIpheion, spring starflower, セイヨウアマナ, spring star, 花韮, 西洋甘菜, スプリングスターフラワー, hananira
  • Place of originMexico, South America
  • Place of floweringGarden, Park
  • Flowering seasonFebruary, March, April
  • Language of flowersDear people

What is Sspring starflower

Birth flowers for Mar 26

Spring starflower , scientific name: Ipheion uniflorum , is a species of perennial bulbs of Amaryllidaceae family native to South America, such as Mexico. It makes thin flower stalk drau out from the linear leaves such as Chinese leek or Nira ( Scientific name: Allium tuberosum) in the spring, the blue and white 6-petaled flowers bloom. The leaves and bulb onion smell. Watching the flowers and shrubbery. Also there is False yellow crocus (scientific name:Ipheion sellowianum ) . 

Common name: Spring star flower, scientific name: Ipheion uniflorum , aka: Ipheion,Leek flower ,hanania,spring star ,origin: Mexico and South America, living type: bulbous perennial plant, environments: grassland , plant: 10-20 cm tall , monocotyledonous ,leaf morphology: thick-walled, flat wide linear leaf length: 10-20 cm, leaf margin: entire, radiation asymmetric flower unimodal inflorescence , petal: in the funnel-shaped at the base and tip 6 valve in open flat (in + out of three flowers of three at a time) , flower blooming seazon: from February to April, flower color: pale blue-violet, blue-violet, white, flower diameter: 3 cm, fruit type: capsule and ripens fruit species.


  • Order
    Asparagales
  • Family
    Amaryllidaceae
  • Genus
    Ipheion
  • Species
    I. uniflorum
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Funnel/trumpet shaped
  • Leaf type
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typebulbous perennial plant
  • Flower colorsPurple White Blue
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height10.0 ~ 20.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower3.0 ~ 3.0 cm

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