Crocus flavus

Crocus flavus
Crocus flavus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Subfamily: Crocoideae
Genus: Crocus
Species: C. flavus
Binomial name
Crocus flavus
(L.) Weston

Crocus flavus (syn. Crocus luteus, Crocus aureus Sibth. & Sm.), (Dutch Yellow Crocus) is a plant of the Crocus genus in the Iridaceae family. It grows wild on the slopes of Greece, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and North West Turkey with bright orange-yellow flowers which Tennyson likened to a fire. It is a small crocus (5-6 cm), despite the names of some cultivars, compared to the Giant Dutch crocuses (C. vernus). Its cultivars are used as ornamental plants. It naturalises well, and has been considered a weed.

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Cultivars

Examples: 'Golden Yellow' (syn. 'Dutch Yellow', 'Yellow Mammoth')

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