muscari
AmericanEtymology
Origin of muscari
1590–1600; < New Latin, perhaps < early Modern Greek *moschari grape hyacinth, derivative of Late Greek móschos musk
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All-white daffodils add sophistication and are effective companions for other delicate early-spring plants, such as snowflake, scilla, muscari, phlox, bluebells, foamflower and epimediums.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
It covers faster than L. muscari and spreads by underground stems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is the star of Bethlehem, wide open in the sunshine and showing so purely white amidst the green, and yonder is the purple fringe-like tuft of the weird muscari.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
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