Gagea lutea

[Alessandro.marinello]

a small, endemic of our mounts

[Yuri Pirogov]

Alessandro, I doubt it is endemic, it is widespread in our forests.

[Lesley Cox]

Vert pretty though. We almost never see these in a bulb list or even a seedlist.

[Alessandro.marinello]

Alessandro, I doubt it is endemic, it is widespread in our forests.

Hi Yuri
this its distribution in Europe
http://luirig.altervista.org/schedeit/fo/gagea_lutea.htm

[Lvandelft]

Last year in April I was given some tiny bulbs by Austrian relatives.
They just told me they were flowering yellow and growing in their meadow.
I had an idea of Gagea, but was not sure.
Now they are flowering with me.

Gagea lutea

[Maggi Young]

And flowering in a carpet of Erythronium americanum, I think .

[Sinchets]

Gagea lutea on a Bulgarian sand dune.

[Lvandelft]

And flowering in a carpet of Erythronium americanum, I think .

Maggi, I have no idea. I received a pot full two years ago from Mr. Connoisseur.
Cannot find a label, so will have to ask when flowering.
But I remember it being probably a hybrid?
Did not see flowers last year, but now it's a carpet already??

[Maggi Young]

He may have it as an E.  americanum x umbilicatum.... we just call it the proliferating americanum  .... it can cover the ground faster than an elite athlete  Often VERY reluctant to flower 

Very smart ground cover, though! 

[Alessandro.marinello]

Last year in April I was given some tiny bulbs by Austrian relatives.
They just told me they were flowering yellow and growing in their meadow.
I had an idea of Gagea, but was not sure.
Now they are flowering with me.

Gagea lutea

Lvandelft
your photo seems to belong to Gagea spathacea

[Lvandelft]

Lvandelft
your photo seems to belong to Gagea spathacea

Alessandro, this probably cannot be, because Gagea spathacea is in Austria only
in Southern Burgenland and rare.
My plant comes from Salzburg/Styria