Santo Stefano in Aspromonte borders the following municipalities: Gambarie Mannoli Laganadi,Calanna,Sambatello, Reggio Calabria, Roccaforte del Greco,Sant'Eufemia in Aspromonte San Roberto, Sant'Alessio in Aspromonte, Scilla, Podargoni,Cerasi.
Scilla, a genus of plants which formerly included Drimia maritima, and which are cultivated for their ornamental flowers, native to Europe and Asia
While agreeing that the genus Chionodoxa is closely related to the genus Scilla, nevertheless the bulb specialist Brian Mathew considers that their differences warrant maintaining separate genera.
Plants in the reserve include Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), plants in the genus Neottia (formerly known as Listera, commonly known as twayblades), Paris quadrifolia (True-lover's Knot or Herb Paris), Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta, Common Bluebell or Bluebell) and St John’s wort (Tipton's weed, chase-devil, or Klamath weed).
The banks are home to a variety of flowers including; Primroses (Primula vulgaris), Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, sometimes Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta), Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), Violets and Campion.
Scilla Elworthy (born 3 June 1943 in Galashiels, Scotland) is the founder of the Oxford Research Group, a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics.
Drimia maritima, a historically important medicinal plant, native to the Mediterranean, formerly classified as Scilla maritima