| Scientific Name: | Crocus vernus (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | Dutch crocus, crocus |
| Family Name: | Iridaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Indoor plant, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Yellow, Violet, Feb-Mar |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Apr-May |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, linear, most 8-14cm long x 4-7mm wide, margin entire, whitish-green strip in leaf centre; flowers usually 1 per corm, relatively large at 3-4cm wide, and begin to open about two weeks after those of <a href ="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Crocus chrysanthus%22" target="_blank">C. chrysanthus</a>. | |