Botanical Name: Ornithogalum arabicum
Common Name: Star of Bethlehem
Type of Plant: monocot: perennial (bulb)
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape Clumps of slender, floppy grasslike leaves; white flowers above leaves have shiny black pistils in center
Height to 2'
Spread to 1'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun preferred
Soil prefers a well-drained soil
Hardiness Hardy (zones 5-24)
 
Morphology:
Leaves highly variable leaves, ranging from very narrow and reed-like to strap-like and floppy; leaves to 2' long, 1" wide, blue-green color
Flowers white, fragrant, to 1" across with black pistil in center; on well-established plants, flowers will appear in racemes
Fruit 3-valved capsule
 
Propagation:
seed, division
 
Usage:
prized container plant for fragrant flowers and for cut flowers good in mass plantings, mixed borders, with annuals and other bulbs
 
Landscape Care:
Watering takes average watering; can tolerate long dry periods when foliage has died back
Fertilizing high phosphorus fertilizer in spring
Pruning remove dead leaves after plant has died back (summer)
Pests/Diseases none major
Special Conditions/Other plant, bulb and flowers are poisonous
 
Origin: Mediterranean region
Family: Liliaceae

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