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Gagea pratensis

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Authors: Dumort.   Pers.  

Botanical Description

Stems 8-15cm high. Basal leaves solitary, linear, 4-5mm wide, minutely ciliate. Stem leaves two, shorter, lanceolate. Flowers two to six, in umbel like clusters, yellow, greenish in bud, 2.5-3.5cm across. Much of Europe, north to Sweden (not the British Isles), in grassland and disturbed ground.