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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A few Spring Squill flowers groing among the grass. |
| Image notes: |
It grows in this situation almost only on Unst & Fetlar serpentine |
| Species in Image: |
Spring Squill |
| Date: |
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| Area: |
Unst |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc03675 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Spring Squill |
| Latin Name |
Scilla verna |
| Family Name |
Liliaceae |
| Description |
Native. Common on dry coastal areas. In Shetland edible bulbs, roots & corms were called 'Murricks'. As a result, in some districts Spring Squill were called 'murricks'. |
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