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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Blue
Pink
White
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Other: All plant parts are poisonous
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Bulbs

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Common names
  • English Bluebell
  • Wild Hyacinth
Also sold as:
  • Endymion non-scriptus
  • Scilla non-scripta
  • Scilla nutans

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Location: Aberdeen, NC (my garden 2022)
English Bluebell #198 nn; LHB p. 234, 33-44-?, previously Hyacint
Location: my garden, Utah
Date: 2019-05-25
Location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date: 2008-04-24
The flowers hang from one side of the stem.
Location: Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2016-05-09
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-04-27
A protected species in England, trade in wild bluebells is a crim

Date: 2011-06-17
Location: Morpeth, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2014-05-17
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire
Date: 2017-04-23
Location: Mississauga
Date: 2013-05-26
Location: Inveraray, Scotland
Date: 2015-06-08
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: My own garden
Date: 2018-05-10
Location: My own garden
Date: 2018-05-10
Location: Wittgensdorf, Germany
Date: May
credit: Jörg Hempel
Location: My garden near Lincoln UK
Date: 2008-03-31
The native Bluebell, they grow well around the base of my huge Ho

photo credit: H. Zell

photo credit:  Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
Location: United KIngdom
Image by Spencer C. H. Barrett, University of Toronto
Comments:
  • Posted by Dodecatheon3 (Northwest Arkansas - Zone 6b) on Apr 23, 2014 5:36 AM concerning plant:
    'English Bluebells' have the following characteristics that help distinguish them from 'Spanish Bluebells':
    Narrow pointed leaves about 1/2 inch wide, strong sweet scent, cream colored pollen, flowers mostly on one side & nodding top portion of stem.
  • Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Mar 25, 2012 11:18 AM concerning plant:
    Honey bees get nectar and pollen from this plant.
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