Gagea minima, known as the least gagea, is a Eurasian species of plants in the lily family.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Its native range is quite large, as it is found in much of south-central, southeastern, central and northern Europe (Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and from there eastwards into European Russia), with additional populations in the Caucasus region.[3][1][10]

Gagea minima is a bulb-forming perennial up to 20 cm tall. Flowers are bright lemon yellow, sometimes green on the underside of the tepals.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b  Species was published under this name in J. Sci. Arts (London) 1:180. 1816 "Gagea minima". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
  2. ^  Species was originally described and published under the genus Ornithogalum, in the Species plantarum 1:306. 1753 "Ornithogalum minimum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Komarov, V.L. (ed.) (1935). Flora SSSR 4: 1-586. Izdatel'stov Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad.
  5. ^ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  6. ^ Diemeer, J. (2005). Gagea miniata (L.) Ker-Gawl. nieuw in Nederland - een erfenis van Linnaeus ?. Gorteria; Mededelingenblad ten Dienste van de Floristiek en het Vegetatie-Onderzoek van Nederland 31: 11-17.
  7. ^ Peruzzi, L. & Gargano, D. (2005). Distribuzione del genere Gagea Salisb. (Liliaceae) in Calabria. Informatore Botanico Italiano 37: 1117-1124.
  8. ^ Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Conspectus Florae Caucasi 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  9. ^ Levichev, I.G. (2006). A review of the Gagea (Liliaceae) species in the flora of Caucasus. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 91: 917-951.
  10. ^ a b Altervista Flora Italiana, Cipollaccio giallo minore Gagea minima (L.) Ker Gawl. includes photos, European distribution map, etc.

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