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Gagea pratensis
Species of flowering plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gagea pratensis, called the yellow star-of-Bethlehem,[2] is a European and Mediterranean plant species in the lily family. It is widespread across much of Europe as well as Turkey and Morocco.[1] It was first described to science by Persoon in 1794.[3]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Liliaceae |
Subfamily: | Lilioideae |
Tribe: | Lilieae |
Genus: | Gagea |
Species: | G. pratensis |
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Gagea pratensis is a bulb-forming perennial. Flowers are generally yellow, sometimes with a green stripe along the backside of each tepal.[4]
- formerly included[1]
- Gagea pratensis var. paczoskii, now called Gagea transversalis