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Gagea lutea (Yellow Star Of Bethlehem)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gagea lutea, the Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, is a Eurasian flowering plant species in the family Liliaceae. It is widespread from Spain and Norway to Siberia and Japan. Gagea lutea is a bulb-forming perennial herb with lanceolate leaves and yellow flowers.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Bulb
Height [1]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uromyces gageae[3]

External References

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0