A site for botanists in Hampshire

Welcome to this site, which provides a forum for the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) in Hampshire, and acts as the web site for the Hampshire Rare Plant Register project.

One or two parts of this site are not installed yet, and some are only open to testers. But feel free to explore, using the menus on the left. More material becomes available quite often, so check back in the near future. To see what's new on the site and to hear about what's going on, go to the News page.

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Turkish Squill

Turkish or Bithynian Squill (Scilla bithynica) is a rare garden escape in Hampshire.

It can be found in churchyards at Hurstbourne Tarrant, where it has escaped and naturalised into the adjacent pasture, and at Colden Common.

It flowers from late March into April, and is one of several Scilla and Chionodoxa (Glory-of-the-snow) species from southern Europe and Turkey that have more or less naturalised into the Hampshire countryside.

©Martin Rand 2008