Also called Checkered Lily or Snake’s Head Fritillary. Native to Europe where it grows all over in meadows and along streams.
10–14" tall. Mid Spring blooms, Z3-8. 6cm/up bulbs.
Also called Checkered Lily or Snake’s Head Fritillary. Native to Europe where it grows all over in meadows and along streams.
10–14" tall. Mid Spring blooms, Z3-8. 6cm/up bulbs.
The Royal General Bulbgrowers Association in Holland (Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur, or KAVB) puts this large group of diverse flowers into a boring catch-all category: Miscellaneous Bulbs. The expensive catalogs call them accent bulbs; some call them minor or dwarf bulbs (even though some of the fritillaries are huge!); Louise Beebe Wilder covered most of them in her 1936 classic Adventures with Hardy Bulbs. Whatever you call them, most are sweet, colorful, and completely welcome in spring.