HYACINTHOIDES NON-SCRIPTA - 10 SEED PACK - EXOTIC PERENNIAL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Hyacinthoides is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, commonly known as bluebells. Hyacinthoides is classified in the subfamily Scilloideae (now part of the family Asparagaceae, but formerly treated as a separate family, called Hyacinthaceae), alongside genera such as Scilla, Chionodoxa and Ornithogalum. Hyacinthoides is differentiated from these other genera by the presence of two bracts at the base of each flower, rather than one bract per flower or no bracts in the other genera. According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of July 2012, the genus contains 11 species and one interspecific hybrid.          The majority of species are distributed around the Mediterranean Basin, with only one species, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, occurring further north in north-western Europe. Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a bulbous perennial plant, found in Atlantic areas from north-western Spain to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, Hyacinthoides non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 5–12 tubular, sweet- scented violet–blue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 3–6 long, linear, basal leaves.