Botany

Crocus flavus

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".

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• ▸Bistorta vivipara
• ▸François de Roubaix
• ▸Agave americana

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