Gagea serotina
Common Alpine-lily · Golden Alpine Lily · Snowdon Lily · Alpine Lily · Common Alp Lily
Also published as Lloydia serotina. You are in the right place.
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
- Flower
- WhiteFlora of Pakistan
- Native range
- Afghanistan, Alaska, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Austria and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.
Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Flora of Pakistan — S. I. Ali and M. Qaiser (eds.); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- In Britain the Snowdon lily, lili'r Wyddfa in Welsh, is an ice age relict found only at a few inaccessible sites in Snowdonia, such as Cwm Idwal, where it seems to have grown in isolation since the glacial period. In North America it is called the common alplily. Wikipedia: Gagea serotina
Protocol
DerivedSER, INSR and RBG Kew, 2026Difficulty High
Cold moist stratification
Duration: 380 daysTemperature: 50°F 10°C Light: eitherMedium: 1% agar
12 hours light, 12 dark.
Germination happens during step 1, in 380 days.
86% germination in 380 days.
Over a year at 10C. SID holds one record for this species.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials
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