''Prospero autumnale'', the autumn squill, an autumnal flowering plant of the family

Asparagaceae Asparagaceae, known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, ''Asparagus officinalis''. Those who live in the temperate c ...

, subfamily

Scilloideae Scilloideae (named after the genus ''Scilla'', "squill") is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family ''Asparagaceae''. Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the genus ''Hyacinthus''. Scilloideae or ...

, is found in the Mediterranean region from Portugal and Morocco east to Turkey and the Caucasus, plus Great Britain.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> Despite being classified as a single species, it is actually a cryptic species complex, with a variety of cytotypes having been discovered which are phenotypically indistinguishable from each other. __TOC__

Synonyms

*''Scilla autumnalis'' L. *''Anthericum autumnale'' (L.) Scop. *''Ornithogalum autumnale'' (L.) Lam. *''Genlisa autumnalis'' (L.) Raf. *''Stellaris autumnalis'' (L.) Bubani *''Hyacinthus autumnalis'' (L.) E.H.L.Krause in J.Sturm *''Urginea autumnalis'' (L.) El-Gadi *''Scilla pulchella'' Munby *''Scilla gallica'' Tod. *''Scilla racemosa'' Balansa ex Baker *''Scilla dumetorum'' Balansa ex Baker *''Scilla longipes'' Batt. in J.A.Battandier & L.C.Trabut *''Scilla holzmannia'' Heldr. *''Scilla scythica'' Kleopow *''Prospero holzmannium'' (Heldr.) Speta *''Prospero pulchellum'' (Munby) Speta *''Prospero scythicum'' (Kleopow) Speta *''Scilla cyrenaica'' (Pamp.) G.M.Barroso & al. *''Prospero cyrenaicum'' (Pamp.) Speta Prospero autumnale MHNT

References

Scilloideae Flora of Europe Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Asparagaceae-stub