Gagea
Gagea lutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Liliales Family: Liliaceae Genus: Gagea Salisb.
Species
over 100

Gagea is a large genus of spring flowers in the Liliaceae found in Europe and western Asia. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Liliopsida is a Botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family Liliales is an order of Monocotyledonous Flowering plants This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of Monocotyledons in the order Liliales. Richard Anthony Salisbury FRS ( May 2, 1761 - 1829 was a British Botanist. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Spring is one of the four Temperate Seasons Spring marks the transition from Winter into Summer. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of Monocotyledons in the order Liliales. It is named after the English naturalist Sir Thomas Gage. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Sir Thomas Gage (1781 - 1820 was an English Botanist, one of the famous Gage family of Firle, Sussex. They were originally described as species of Ornithogalum, which, together with the usual yellow colour of the flowers, explains the English name Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem for the most common species in Europe, Gagea lutea, which grows in damp deciduous woodland. The Star of Bethlehem is a Genus ( Ornithogalum) of Perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa belonging English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Botany Autumn leaf color. See --> In Botany and Horticulture, deciduous Plants, including Ecologically a woodland is an area covered in trees differentiated from a Forest.

Selected Species

• Gagea arvensis - Field Gagea
• Gagea bohemica - Early Star-of-Bethlehem, Radnor Lily
• Gagea graeca
• Gagea lutea - Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem
• Gagea pratensis - Meadow Gagea

Close-up of the flowers

This monocot-related article is a stub. Gagea bohemica, the Early Star-of-Bethlehem or Radnor Lily is a Flowering plant in the genus Gagea of the family Liliaceae Gagea is a large Genus of spring Flowers in the Liliaceae found in Europe and western Asia. Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of Flowering plants (angiosperms that are traditionally recognised the other being Dicotyledons You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.