Siberian squill

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.

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

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