Chionodoxa

Starlike flowers with white centers, 3–10 per raceme. Does well in shady woodland gardens and short grass, as well as in full sun. Can eventually form vast colonies. From the Greek chion ‘snow’ and doxa ‘glory’; pronounced kee-on-oh-doks-uh. Formerly Chionodoxa luciliae, C. gigantea. In 2020, Chionodoxa was subsumed into Scilla. Native to woods and mountains of Crete, Cyprus and western Turkey.