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Crocus flavus
Crocus flavus is a small, fragrant yellow-flowered spring crocus grown from a corm, native to the Balkans and northwest Turkey. It naturalizes well in gardens and is grown as a hardy bulb for early-season colour.
Crocus flavus, known as yellow crocus, Dutch yellow crocus or snow crocus, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Crocus of the family Iridaceae. It grows wild on the slopes of Bulgaria, Greece, parts of former Yugoslavia (North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia), Romania and northwestern Turkey, with fragrant bright orange-yellow flowers. It is a small crocus (5–6 cm (2–2 in), despite the names of some cultivars, compared to the giant Dutch crocuses (C. vernus). Its cultivars are used as ornamental plants.
The Latin specific epithet flavus means "yellow".
Crocus flavus naturalizes well in gardens, and has escaped cultivation and become naturalized in the US state of Arkansas. The majority of plants grown in gardens are triploids that do not produce seeds and are propagated vegetatively. The species has been hybridized with other crocus species to produce a number of other cultivars.
Cultivars include Crocus flavus 'Grosser Gelber' ('Big Yellow'), with large orange-yellow flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crocus flavus 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.
