Species information
Sentience
• Non-sentient
Usage
• Ingredient for Muggle cough medicines
• Ingredient for Felix Felicis
Status
• Extant
"The distinctive blue colour with white-eye gives this species the name Glory-of-the-snow. Very fanciful." - Zygmunt Budge, Book of Spells.
Squill, also known as glory-of-the-snow, are a number of brightly coloured flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae. The species goes dormant after flowering in the spring. Squill bulbs, which have Potion-making properties, are best harvested just after the plants flower.
Squill are used by Muggles to manufacture cough medicines, while wizards use it as an ingredient for Felix Felicis - renowned Potioneer Zygmunt Budge remarked that it was perhaps the squill that gave Felix Felicis its smooth texture.
