Appearance
Growing to 10–20 cm tall by 5 cm wide, it is a bulbous perennial, with two to four strap-shaped leaves appearing in early spring, at the same time as the nodding, blue, bell-shaped flowers.The flowers have six petals and six stamens, and are arranged singly or in racemes of two or three. Petals may be reflexed to the horizontal when sunlight is bright, but are more often cup-shaped. The flowers are usually blue, but those of ''Scilla siberica'' var. ''alba'' are white. The stamens of ''Scilla'' are separate, unlike those of the related genera ''Puschkinia'' and ''Chionodoxa'', which are fused into a tube. The pollen is dark blue.
After flowering, the flower stems become limp as capsules mature. At maturity, the capsules become purple and split open, releasing small, dark brown seeds. When the seeds are mature, the leaves wither and the plant goes dormant until the next spring.
Seedlings are hollow-leaved.
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