[MAIPC] Scilla siberica

[Rohrbaugh, Andrew]

I don't have any experience with Siberian squill, but from an unscientific google search it definitely looks like that's what it is.

The only native species I could think of that looks similar would be Camassia scilloides, but it has more of a raceme of flowers and narrower, lighter petals. Lancaster would also be well outside of its current range.

Andrew Rohrbaugh | Botanist
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
Bureau of Forestry | Ecological Services Section
PO Box 8552, 400 Market St, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8552
Phone: 717.705.2823 | Fax: 717.772.0271
anrohrbaug at pa.gov
www.dcnr.state.pa.us<http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/>

From: MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org] On Behalf Of John Ambler
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:57 PM
To: jilswearingen at gmail.com
Cc: maipc at lists.maipc.org
Subject: [MAIPC] Scilla siberica

Hi Jil and maipc list members,

I believe there is a population of squill, Scilla siberica, at Tucquan Glen in southern Lancaster Co., PA.  I did a Google search on squill EDDMAPS and immediately got the distribution map for it.

It is severely invasive in Minnesota:  https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/siberian-squill  .  At Tucquan Glen I have seen it for years, but I will start quantifying the population over time.

This is on a rich, high, forested floodplain.  Snowdrops started being invasive on the same floodplain, but it is easy to pull out clumps of it.

Photos below are from March 22, 2017.  If anyone knows that this is not Scilla siberica, please let me know.

John Ambler
Lancaster, PA

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Please pardon the Indian strawberry and ground ivy.


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