Colchicum bulbocodium
Spring meadow saffron | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Colchicaceae |
Genus: | Colchicum |
Species: | C. bulbocodium
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Binomial name | |
Colchicum bulbocodium | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Colchicum bulbocodium, the spring meadow saffron, is a species of alpine bulbs native to mountain ranges across Europe from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus (Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, southern European Russia).[1][2]
Colchicum bulbocodium is cultivated as ornamental plants in many places. It has flowers considered ideal for the rock garden, which is beautiful en masse. The plant is a hardy spring flower bulb, very small in size, reaching about 7–10 cm high. From April to June, the strap-shaped leaves emerge with pink-to-purple crocus-like flowers, 3–8 cm in diameter. As all the species of the genus Colchicum, the species is a poisonous plant.[3]
Subspecies and varieties
Three infraspecific taxa of the species are currently recognized:[1]
- Colchicum bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium
- var. bulbocodium
- var. edentatum (Schur) K.Perss (syn. Bulbocodium edentatum Schur.) is indigenous to Romania.
- Colchicum bulbocodium subsp. versicolor (Ker Gawl.) K. Perss. (syn. Bulbocodium versicolor (Ker Gawl.) Spreng.) is native in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The plant is in all its parts smaller than Colchicum bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium.
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Flower buds
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Flowering plants in a garden
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Leaf in the late spring
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Leaf and fruit
References
External links
- Colchicum
- Alpine flora
- Flora of the Alps
- Flora of the Pyrenees
- Flora of Spain
- Flora of France
- Flora of Italy
- Flora of Switzerland
- Flora of Austria
- Flora of Hungary
- Flora of Romania
- Flora of Ukraine
- Flora of Russia
- Flora of Slovenia
- Flora of Croatia
- Flora of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Garden plants of Europe
- Liliales stubs