Dutch crocus
Crocus vernus (L.) Hill
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- —
Iridaceae
Also called Dutch crocus, spring crocus
Formerly Crocus acutiflorus, Crocus albiflorus, Crocus caeruleus, Crocus montenegrinus, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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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
- Alps to W. Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Height
- 10 cmRead from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from Royal Horticultural Society, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- German
- Artengruppe Frühlings-Krokus, Frühlings-Krokus, Weisser Krokus
- Slovak
- šafran jarný
- Dutch
- Bonte krokus-complex, bonte krokus, Bonte krokus
- Finnish
- kevätsahrami
- French
- crocus printanier
- Slovenian
- pomladanski žafran
- Chinese
- 春番红花
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Royal Horticultural Society, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Crocus vernus (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.