Description
(syn. Endymion hispanicus, Scilla hispanica)
H. hispanica is distinguished from the English Bluebell by its larger, paler blue flowers, which are held on more erect flower stems with the flowers scattered along them. The flowers have little or no scent.
If you are unsure, then it can be instantly separated from H. non-scripta as H. hispanica has blue anthers before dehiscence (whereas the English Bluebell and the widespread hybrid invader both have creamy-white anthers). Additionally it has the tallest and broadest leaves of all of the species.
The common Spanish bluebell is cultivated as a garden plant, and several named cultivars exist in various shades of white, pink and blue. However we are offering a very different and distinct form, propagated from the most southerly population known in Spain, a population in which all of the flowers are wide-open bells (they are not in any way tubular) with the very tips of the petals recurved. This is quite unlike anything found throughout the more northerly parts of its range in Spain or in horticulture.
