Scientific Name: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Common Name: English bluebell
Family Name: Asparagaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Perennial border, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Raceme, White, Blue, Apr-May
Fruit: Capsule, Green, Brown, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Most 20-30cm tall; leaves basal, 3-6 per bulb, linear, most 20-40cm long x 7-15mm wide; florets fragrant, narrowly tubular to campanulate, 1.2-2cm long, with six violet-blue reflexed tepals (occasionally white or rarely pink), 6-12 on a one-sided arching raceme, Apr-May.