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Colchicum corsicum

Colchicum corsicum
Photo: Zoovolunteer1961, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Colchicaceae (Colchic family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Native range
Corse, Sardegna
Climate
subtropical

About

Colchicum corsicum is a species of flowering plant in the Colchicaceae family. It is native to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean.

Colchicum corsicum is a perennial growing from an underground corm. Some individuals have pink flowers, others white, the two very often being intermingled in different individuals within a given population.

Other Colchicum plants

African Crocus · Alpine Autumn Crocus · Colchicum atropurpureum · Autumn crocus · White Autumn Crocus · Colchicum baytopiorum · Colchicum boissieri · Colchicum szovitsii subsp. brachyphyllum · Spring Meadow Saffron · False Autumn Crocus · Tenore Autumn Crocus · Mediterranean Meadow Saffron

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Colchicum corsicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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