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Crocus chrysanthus
Also called Golden Crocus
Snow Crocus is a small, early-flowering bulb (corm) from southeastern Europe and Turkey, known for bowl-shaped orange-yellow flowers that often appear in late winter or early spring, sometimes through snow. Give it full sun or light shade and well-drained soil, and let the foliage die back naturally.
Crocus chrysanthus, the snow crocus or golden crocus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.
It is native to southeastern Europe and Turkey, and is an introduced species in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Great Britain.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crocus chrysanthus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
