Crocus sativus
ക്രോക്കസ് സാറ്റിവസ്জাফরান
Crocus sativus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- 8 cm
Iridaceae
Formerly Crocus officinalis, Crocus orsinii, Crocus pendulus, Crocus setifolius, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from GreeceKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 15 cm to 25 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–10 in; Wikipedia 10–30 cm
- Spread
- 5 cm to 10 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, yellow; Wikipedia purple
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- azafrán
- German
- Schaffner, Croc, Broze
- Asturian
- Azafrán
- Czech
- šafrán setý
- Finnish
- Maustesahrami
- Northern Frisian
- Safraan
- Galician
- Azafrán
- Hungarian
- Jóféle sáfrány
- Italian
- Zafferano vero
- Dutch
- saffraankrokus
- Polish
- szafran uprawny
- Serbian (Latin)
- Šafran
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Crocus sativus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.