Gagea lutea, Yellow star-of-Bethlehem? (Romania) (1 Viewer)

Hello,

I saw this flower yesterday in Romania, in a beech forest. I would like to ask for an id for it. Can this be Gagea lutea (Yellow star-of-Bethlehem) or is it something
else?

Thank you very much in advance,
Istvan

It's certainly a Gagea species.I don't know how many species occur in Romania. Most have yellow flowers (a couple of species have white) + can be tricky to identify. When I've been in Kazakhstan in the spring there are a lot of superficially similar species.

aeshna5 said:

It's certainly a Gagea species. I don't know how many species occur in Romania.

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Nine species, unfortunately!

http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/RegionalTaxon.asp?PTNameFK=146054&PTRefFk=8000000&Name=Gagea

Link seems to be time-sensitive and has expired, so here's a copy-n-paste of the BGBM results instead:


Gagea occurring in Romania

Gagea bohemica (Zauschn.) Schult. & Schult. f.
Gagea bulbifera (Pall.) Salisb.
Gagea liotardii (Sternb.) Schult. & Schult. f.
Gagea lutea (L.) Ker Gawl.
Gagea minima (L.) Ker Gawl.
Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort.
Gagea pusilla (F. W. Schmidt) Sweet
Gagea reticulata (Pall.) Schult. & Schult. f.
Gagea villosa (M. Bieb.) Sweet

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Thank you very much for your help and responses aeshna5 and Nutcracker!

Wow, Nutcracker, your response is awesome (as always)! I searched a lot for a list of the species just from Romania and the feature of filtering based on a country from the BGBM website is really cool. I can start now to roll out some of the species from your list, I think I can do that based on the size, shape and number of the basal leaves (here we have only 1), also on the habitat (I found that in a forest). I already found yesterday a partial list from Hungary (from Romania nothing), and Gagea lutea was the most likely species (also one of the most common ones I think), but having the whole list is really helpful. I will post back here what I have found later today ...

Thanks again,
Istvan