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|accepted_name=Muscari
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 2. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Grape-hyacinth
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Muscari
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muscari]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek moschos, musk, alluding to the scent of the flowers
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57, 317, 318
|treatment_page=page 316
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form;bulb coloration;bulb architecture;bulb shape"><b>Herbs </b>perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid bulbs, with or without offsets (bulblets).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf atypical quantity;leaf quantity"><b>Leaves </b>(1–) 2–7, basal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade arrangement or course or shape;blade architecture;blade pubescence;blade texture">blade linear, sometimes sulcate, glabrous, rather fleshy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="scape shape"><b>Scape </b>terete.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence density;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence length"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminally racemose, many-flowered, dense, bracteate, usually elongating in fruit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="distal flower size;distal flower reproduction">distal flowers smaller, sterile, differing in color, forming a tuft (coma);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract size">bracts minute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower odor"><b>Flowers </b>fragrant;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="perianth shape;perianth size">perianth tubular to urceolate, usually constricted basally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="tepal quantity;tepal length;distal portion fusion;distal portion orientation;distal portion height or length or size;distal portion shape">tepals 6, connate most of their length, distal portions distinct, reflexed, short, toothlike;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen position;stamen position;row quantity">stamens 6, epitepalous, in 2 rows, included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="anther coloration;anther fixation;anther shape">anthers dark blue, dorsifixed, globose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="ovary position;ovary coloration;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;sepal nectary presence">ovary superior, green, 3-locular, inner sepal nectaries present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="style quantity">style 1;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stigma shape">stigma 3-lobed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit texture;fruit dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, obtusely 3-angled, papery, dehiscence loculicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>6, black, globose, wrinkled to reticulate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape;seed relief;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected  elsewhere
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Various species and cultivated forms of Muscari are commonly grown for their early spring flowers. They may reseed in the flora area, but they are mostly transported in soil containing the bulblets.</p><!--
--><p>Muscari armeniacum Baker has been attributed to the flora, but no definite records of naturalized plants have been found. Herbarium specimens of that species are difficult to distinguish from those of M. neglectum, but live specimens of M. armeniacum have much paler blue flowers (A. Huxley et al. 1992).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of fertile flowers pale to olive brown, sterile flowers bright violet, shorter than the 6–25 mm ascending pedicels.
|[[Muscari comosum|Muscari comosum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of fertile and sterile flowers blue, longer than the 1–4(–5) mm declined, nodding, or spreading pedicels.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Racemes 12–20-flowered; leaf blades 3–8 mm wide; perianth tubes of fertile flowers globose, sky blue.
|[[Muscari botryoides|Muscari botryoides]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Racemes 20–40-flowered; leaf blades 2–4(–5) mm; perianth tubes of fertile flowers obovoid to oblong-urceolate or cylindric, blackish blue.
|[[Muscari neglectum|Muscari neglectum]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Muscari
|author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected  elsewhere
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_632.xml
|genus=Muscari
|anther coloration=dark blue
|anther fixation=dorsifixed
|anther shape=globose
|blade architecture=sulcate
|blade arrangement or course or shape=linear
|blade pubescence=glabrous
|blade texture=fleshy
|bract size=minute
|bulb architecture=tunicate
|bulb coloration=brown
|bulb shape=ovoid
|distal flower reproduction=sterile
|distal flower size=smaller
|distal portion fusion=distinct
|distal portion height or length or size=short
|distal portion orientation=reflexed
|distal portion shape=toothlike
|flower odor=fragrant
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit dehiscence=loculicidal
|fruit shape=3-angled
|fruit texture=papery
|inflorescence architecture=bracteate;many-flowered
|inflorescence arrangement=racemose
|inflorescence density=dense
|inflorescence length=elongating
|leaf atypical quantity=1;2
|leaf quantity=2;7
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=3-locular
|ovary coloration=green
|ovary position=superior
|perianth shape=tubular;urceolate
|perianth size=constricted
|row quantity=2
|scape shape=terete
|seed coloration=black
|seed quantity=6
|seed relief=wrinkled;reticulate
|seed shape=globose
|sepal nectary presence=absent
|stamen position=included;epitepalous
|stamen quantity=6
|stigma shape=3-lobed
|style quantity=1
|tepal length=connate
|tepal quantity=6
|whole_organism architecture=scapose
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=9
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