Lily-of-the-Field

Lily-of-the-Field (Sternbergia) - Charming hardy bulbs with flowers of firm texture, better able to withstand bad weather than the Autumn Crocus. One source of failure is moving them at the wrong time, or before growth has fully developed. What they want is thorough ripening in summer and a slight protection, such as dry litter, during the winter. In sandy loams, and fully exposed to the sun, the bulbs will ripen without being lifted, and are best left undisturbed until of flowering size. Also See: Flowers

The rarest of these Sternbergias should have a place in our bulb borders, in gritty or open soil, associated with the rarer Narcissi and choice hardy bulbs. Their effect in masses near the shelter of walls is very fine in autumn.

Contents 1 Related Flowers 1.1 Sternbergia Colchiciflora 1.2 Sternbergia Fischeriana 1.3 Sternbergia Graeca 1.4 Sternbergia Lutea 1.5 Sternbergia Macrantha 2 Related Flowers 2.1 Sternbergia Sicula

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Sternbergia Colchiciflora

Sternbergia Colchiciflora - An old garden plant, having been cultivated by Clusius and Parkinson. Its fragrant, pale yellow flowers come in autumn, perfuming with a Jessamine-scent the fields of the Crimea about the Bosphorus. The leaves are narrow, and come with the fruit in spring. The plants grow in dry exposed tracts of the Caucasus and Crimea, and are hardy in this country. S. dalmatica and S. pulchella are varieties.

Sternbergia Fischeriana

Sternbergia Fischeriana - Nearly allied, is hardy, and has the habit of S. lutea, from which it differs chiefly in flowering in spring instead of autumn, and by its stalked ovary and capsule. Caucasus.

Sternbergia Graeca

Sternbergia Graeca - Has very narrow leaves and broad perianth segments. Mountains of Greece.

Sternbergia Lutea

Sternbergia Lutea - The great autumn Daffodil of Parkinson, it is a very pretty hardy plant, best on warm gravelly soils. The absence of seed on this bulb in a cultivated state is remarkable, seeing how plentiful it is and how freely it flowers in many parts of the country. It is supposed by some writers to be the Lily of Scripture, as it grows abundantly in the vales in Palestine. S. angustifolia appears to be a narrow-leaved form, very free-flowering, and more vigorous than S. lutea.

Sternbergia Macrantha

Sternbergia Macrantha - This is a really handsome species, the leaves blunt and slightly glaucous, about an inch broad when fully developed about midsummer; flowers bright yellow in autumn. Asia Minor.

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Sternbergia Sicula

Sternbergia Sicula - A form with narrower leaves and segments than the type, while the Cretan variety has considerably larger flowers.

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