You may well have seen a Grape-hyacinth in the countryside somewhere but unless you go to the right places it will invariably be the garden variety M. armeniacum. This one is the native species and is found mostly in East Anglia where it grows on grassy banks and in amongst trees in dappled shade.
Breckland April 21st 2005
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