Muscari spreitzenhoferi

In this species from Crete the flower spike is divided into upper (sterile) flowers and lower (fertile) ones. The lower flowers are narrowly urn-shaped, about 5mm long, yellowish to tan and held on long pedicels whilst the upper flowers are reduced to just a few wispy threads. After fertilisation, the pedicels (which hold each flower) elongate considerably, and this becomes the closest that a Mediterranean plant gets to being a tumbleweed!

Makes a solitary bulb without offsets.