Early crocus
Crocus tommasinianus Herb.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 11 cm
- wide
- —
Iridaceae
Also called Tomasini's crocus, Tommasini's crocus, Woodland crocus
Formerly Crocus serbicus
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
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Hungary to SW. Croatia and NW. BulgariaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 13 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4–6 in; Wikipedia 3–3 in
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, red; Wikipedia purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- German
- Tommasini-Krokus
- Finnish
- Tähtisahrami
- French
- crocus de tommasini
- Hungarian
- Illír sáfrány
- Dutch
- boerenkrokus, Boerenkrokus
- Polish
- szafran Tommasiniego
- Chinese
- 托马西尼番紫花, 秋水仙番红花
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, 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 2.5
- 3D model: Crocus tommasinianus (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.