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 as a weed.

Contents 1 Cultivars 2 Gallery 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Cultivars

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

[edit] Gallery

Crocus flavus

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• օzdemir, Canan. The Morphology and Anatomy of Crocus flavus Weston subsp. flavus (Iridaceae), Turk J Bot 30 (2006) 175-180
• ITIS
• Alpine Garden Society
• International Flower Bulb Centre
• Uniprot Taxonomy

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