2024年4月18日 · Squill or Siberian squill, also referred to by its botanical name, Scilla, is a spring bulb that announces a new garden season with bursts of dark green grass-like foliage. The leaves seem to emerge overnight in early spring.

Squill is a plant native to Africa, India, and the Mediterranean. Despite serious safety concerns, the bulbs of the plant are sometimes used to make medicine. Some people use squill for...

Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). [3] . This species is known by several common names, including squill, sea squill, sea onion, [4] …

Both the scientific genus name Scilla and the common word squill [37] derive, via Middle English and French, from the Latin scilla [38] and Greek σκίλλα skilla words for the plants. The common name squill has been applied to a number of other similar taxa such as Drimia .

Squill is a common name for several lily-like plants and may refer to: Drimia maritima, medicinal plant native to the Mediterranean, formerly classified as Scilla maritima; Scilla, a genus of plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers, native to Europe and Asia

Portugese squills, autumn squills or maritime squills are cute flowers that are easy to care for from planting to blooming. Here is how to grow great squills.

Squill (Scilla siberica) is a popular landscape plant that can be invasive. Squill readily spreads itself and is hardy and cold tolerant. Often found in wooded areas in early spring, emerging and blooming right after snow melts.

Squill stimulates the bronchial mucous membrane and is given in bronchitis after subsidence of the acute inflammation. It is generally used in combination with other stimulating expectorants, its effects being thereby increased, and is considered most useful in chronic bronchitis, catarrhal affections and asthma.

With a dainty 4 inches (10 cm) height of growth, the squill unfolds an amazing presence in the spring garden. While some of the graceful flower species run out of steam by the end of April, other Scilla species are on hand for early summer bloom.

Scilla–commonly called squill–bears nodding, bell-shaped to flat or star-shaped flowers in spring. The blossoms are usually blue, but also pink, purple, or white. Scilla is a perennial bulb. It has strap-shaped mid-green leaves that offset the colorful flowers. Scilla stands just 3 to 6 inches tall.