키오노독사 루킬리아이

키오노독사 루킬리아이

	과명 Campanulaceae (초롱꽃과) 속명 Chionodoxa (키오노독사속) 전체학명 Chionodoxa luciliae Boiss. 추천명 키오노독사 루킬리아이 이명 외국명 glory of the snow

Chionodoxa luciliae (syn. C. gigantea), the Bossier's glory-of-the-snow or Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial from west Turkey flowering in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. The Latin name is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.

Like all members of the genus Chionodoxa, the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower. In the related genus Scilla, the stamens are not flattened or clustered together. The differences are not considered by some botanists as sufficient to create a separate genus, so they include this species in Scilla. 

Each bulb produces two leaves, up to 8 cm long and 2 cm wide, and at most one flowering stem, up to 10 cm long. The flowers are produced in a loose pyramidal raceme, with 2–3 flowers per stem, which face upwards. Each flower is up to 3.5 cm across. The base of each tepal is white (as are the stamen filaments), producing a white 'eye'. The outer part of the tepals is violet-blue. The species can be distinguished from the commonest form grown in gardens, C. siehei, by the much smaller number of slightly larger flowers per stem. 

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. (confirmed 2017). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionodoxa_luciliae