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Siberian squill

American  

noun

  1. a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.


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On Instagram, friends share colorful, exuberant, almost psychedelic pictures of turmeric-orange poppies in Berkeley, Calif., of cotton-candy ornamental cherry trees in Portland, Ore., of bluish-purple Siberian squill in upstate New York.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2020

The flowers shown by Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin are known to us as Scilla sibirica, or Siberian squill.

From Time Magazine Archive

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