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|accepted_name=Muscari
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 2. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Grape-hyacinth
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Muscari
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Muscari]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek moschos, musk, alluding to the scent of the flowers
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57, 317, 318
|treatment_page=page 316
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid bulbs, with or without offsets (bulblets). <b>Leaves</b> (1–)2–7, basal; blade linear, sometimes sulcate, glabrous, rather fleshy. <b>Scape</b> terete. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminally racemose, many-flowered, dense, bracteate, usually elongating in fruit; distal flowers smaller, sterile, differing in color, forming a tuft (coma); bracts minute. <b>Flowers</b> fragrant; perianth tubular to urceolate, usually constricted basally; tepals 6, connate most of their length, distal portions distinct, reflexed, short, toothlike; stamens 6, epitepalous, in 2 rows, included; anthers dark blue, dorsifixed, globose; ovary superior, green, 3-locular, inner sepal nectaries present; style 1; stigma 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, obtusely 3-angled, papery, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 6, black, globose, wrinkled to reticulate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected introduced elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 30 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Various species and cultivated forms of <i>Muscari</i> are commonly grown for their early spring flowers. They may reseed in the flora area, but they are mostly transported in soil containing the bulblets.</p><!--
--><p><i>Muscari</i> armeniacum Baker has been attributed to the flora, but no definite records of naturalized plants have been found. Herbarium specimens of that species are difficult to distinguish from those of <i>M. neglectum</i>, but live specimens of M. armeniacum have much paler blue flowers (A. Huxley et al. 1992).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of fertile flowers pale to olive brown, sterile flowers bright violet, shorter than the 6–25 mm ascending pedicels.
|[[Muscari comosum|Muscari comosum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Tepals of fertile and sterile flowers blue, longer than the 1–4(–5) mm declined, nodding, or spreading pedicels.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Racemes 12–20-flowered; leaf blades 3–8 mm wide; perianth tubes of fertile flowers globose, sky blue.
|[[Muscari botryoides|Muscari botryoides]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Racemes 20–40-flowered; leaf blades 2–4(–5) mm; perianth tubes of fertile flowers obovoid to oblong-urceolate or cylindric, blackish blue.
|[[Muscari neglectum|Muscari neglectum]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Muscari
|author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=temperate Europe;n Africa;sw Asia;expected introduced elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|genus=Muscari
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