Green Flowered Gagea / غاجِيَة مُخضَرة الزَّهرة / / بُطّيط الحجل

Gagea chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Schult. & Schult.f.

Flowers, February. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Unknown
Blooming period
December to April
Potential medicinal uses
  • Analgesic
  • Anthelmintic

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Yellow
Life form
  • Geophyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Gagea Salisb.
Family
Liliaceae
Wikidata item
Q15542067
GBIF Item
Gagea chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Schult. & Schult.f. (5299894)

References

  1. Mashjar Juthour.(2017). Palestinian Wildflower Pocket Guide(English and Arabic)
  2. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  3. Nehmé, M.(2008). Etymological dictionary of Syrian flora. Beirut: Librairie du liban publishers.(English, French, and Arabic)
  4. Gagea chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Schult. & Schult.f. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-22.(English)
  5. Pacific Bulb Society. Gagea chlorantha. (2022, March 09)

Citation

Gagea chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Schult. & Schult.f. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/751 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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