Fritillaria graeca: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Liliales
- Family
- Liliaceae
- Genus
- Fritillaria
- Species
- Fritillaria graeca
- Scientific Name
- Fritillaria graeca
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Fritillaria graeca
Fritillaria graeca is a European plant species in the family Liliaceae. It is native to the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Greece). Some older literature says that the plant can also be found in Serbia, but all these collections are of var. gussichiae, now regarded as a distinct species called Fritillaria gussichiae.
Fritillaria graeca has flowers with red and white stripes which resemble small bells - one on each stem. It blooms between April and May. It reaches a height of around 25 cm.
- Subspecies
- Fritillaria graeca subsp. graeca - eastern + southern Greece including Crete
- Fritillaria graeca subsp. thessala (Boiss.) Rix - Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, northern Greece
- formerly included
- Fritillaria graeca var. gussichiae, now called Fritillaria gussichiae
- Fritillaria graeca var. skorpili, now called Fritillaria skorpili
Fritillaria graeca in languages:
- Bulgarian
- Гръцка ведрица
- Danish
- Græsk Vibeæg
- English
- Greek Fritillary
- Estonian
- kreeka püvilill
- German
- Griechische Schachblume
- Modern Greek
- Φριτιλλάρια η ελληνική
- Polish
- szachownica grecka
- Russian
- Рябчик греческий
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Fritillaria acmopetala
- Fritillaria alburyana
- Fritillaria alfredae
- Fritillaria amana
- Fritillaria anhuiensis
- Fritillaria armena
- Fritillaria arsusiana
- Fritillaria assyriaca
- Fritillaria asumaniae
- Fritillaria atrolineata
- Fritillaria aurea
- Fritillaria avromanica
- Fritillaria baskilensis
- Fritillaria bithynica
- Fritillaria byfieldii
- Fritillaria carica
- Fritillaria caucasica
- Fritillaria chlorantha
- Fritillaria chlororhabdota
- Fritillaria cirrhosa
- Fritillaria collina
- Fritillaria conica
- Fritillaria crassicaulis
- Fritillaria crassifolia
- Fritillaria dajinensis
- Fritillaria davisii
- Fritillaria delavayi
- Fritillaria drenovskii
- Fritillaria dzhabavae
- Fritillaria ebeiensis
- Fritillaria ehrhartii
- Fritillaria elwesii
- Fritillaria enginiana
- Fritillaria epirotica
- Fritillaria euboeica
- Fritillaria ferganensis
- Fritillaria fleischeriana
- Fritillaria forbesii
- Fritillaria frankiorum
- Fritillaria fusca
- Fritillaria gencensis
- Fritillaria graeca
- Fritillaria grandiflora
- Fritillaria gussichiae
- Fritillaria hakkarensis
- Fritillaria hermonis
- Fritillaria involucrata
- Fritillaria kittaniae
- Fritillaria kordestanica
- Fritillaria kotschyana
- Fritillaria kurdica
- Fritillaria lagodechiana
- Fritillaria latakiensis
- Fritillaria latifolia
- Fritillaria legionensis
- Fritillaria lusitanica
- Fritillaria macedonica
- Fritillaria macrocarpa
- Fritillaria melananthera
- Fritillaria meleagris
- Fritillaria meleagroides
- Fritillaria messanensis
- Fritillaria michailovskyi
- Fritillaria milasensis
- Fritillaria minima
- Fritillaria minuta
- Fritillaria monantha
- Fritillaria montana
- Fritillaria mughlae
- Fritillaria mutabilis
- Fritillaria obliqua
- Fritillaria olgae
- Fritillaria olivieri
- Fritillaria oranensis
- Fritillaria orientalis
- Fritillaria ozdemir-elmasii
- Fritillaria pallidiflora
- Fritillaria phitosii
- Fritillaria pinardii
- Fritillaria pontica
- Fritillaria przewalskii
- Fritillaria pyrenaica
- Fritillaria regelii
- Fritillaria reuteri
- Fritillaria rhodia
- Fritillaria rhodocanakis
- Fritillaria ruthenica
- Fritillaria serpenticola
- Fritillaria sibthorpiana
- Fritillaria sichuanica
- Fritillaria sinica
- Fritillaria skorpili
- Fritillaria sororum
- Fritillaria spetsiotica x rhodocanakis
- Fritillaria straussii
- Fritillaria stribrnyi
- Fritillaria taipaiensis
- Fritillaria thunbergii
- Fritillaria tortifolia
- Fritillaria tubaeformis
- Fritillaria tunievii
- Fritillaria unibracteata
- Fritillaria uva-vulpis
- Fritillaria verticillata
- Fritillaria viridiflora
- Fritillaria walujewii
- Fritillaria whittallii
- Fritillaria yuminensis
- Fritillaria yuzhongensis
- Fritillaria × spetsiotica































