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Amaryllidaceae
Blue Star Ipheion
Ipheion uniflorum
Wishes and hopes.
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Genus
- Ipheion
- Native to
- South America, Argentina, Uruguay
- Bloom season
- Spring
- Type
- bulbous perennial
- Height
- 0.5-0.75 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Well-drained, average
- Water
- low
- Hardiness
- 5-9
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- The leaves smell distinctly of garlic or onion when crushed, a clue to its Allium-family kinship.
- Each bulb produces only one flower per stem, hence the species name 'uniflorum' meaning one-flowered.
- The six-petaled star-shaped flowers have a sweet honey-like fragrance despite the garlicky foliage.
- Blue star ipheion naturalizes easily and can form dense carpets of hundreds of flowers over time.
- The cultivar 'Rolf Fiedler' won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit for its clear blue color.
Color meanings
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starlit dreams
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gentle hope