Muscari tenuiflorum, Tausch

8. M. tenuiflorum Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 24: 234 (1841)

( Leopoldia tenuiflora (Tausch) Heldr. ).

Bulb-tunics pale grey. Leaves 3-7, 15-30(-40) cm x 8-20(-30) mm, linear, canaliculate. Scape 20-60 cm, longer than leaves. Raceme 6-30 x 1-5-3 cm, lax, cylindrical. Pedicels of fertile flowers (0-5-)2-7(-20) mm, patent, shorter than flowers, not elongating after anthesis. Fertile flowers 5-9-5 mm, narrowly obconic-urceolate, pale greyish-brown; shoulders sharply angled, pale cream or greenish; teeth blackish, recurved. Pedicels of sterile flowers (2-)3-5-16 mm, bright violet, ascending to patent. Sterile flowers 3-5-14 mm, obovoid to tubular, bright violet. Fruiting raceme lax, cylindrical. Capsule 12-16 x 6-5-7-5 mm, obovoid, emarginate to obcordate. 2n = 18. Dry places. E.C. & S.E. Europe, extending locally westwards to c. 10°F. in S. Germany. Al Au Bu Cz Ge Gr Hu Ju Rm Rs (W) Tu.