Muscari armeniacum Garden Grape-hyacinth C DD I
This European introduction is quite a common garden escape and one which looks quite like the native Muscari neglectum (Grape-hyacinth). The most obvious difference between the two is that the native M. neglectum has a few bright blue sterile florets at the very top of the spike but the rest are violet-blue almost black in color. The Garden grape-hyacinth has bright blue florets roughly all the same colour.
Southport (Birkdale Sand Hills) 3rd may 2006
Added on 15th May 2006