The six identically shaped bracts are one-third to one-half their length and deformed tubular, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped in form.

The color of the bracts ranges from white to cream to brown or more rarely from blue to purple.

[6] The genus name honors the French botanist Pierre Richer de Belleval (1564-1632).

The genus Bellevalia is placed in the tribe Hyacintheae in the subfamily Scilloideae within the family Asparagaceae.

According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families,[2] there are 65 Bellevalia species: moved to Alrawia Althenia Hyacinthella Leopoldia Muscari Pseudomuscari