Crocus vernus (L.) Hill, 1765 29% complete

Spring crocus

Veg. Syst. 10: 1 (1765)


Data sources

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Sourced10 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded8 Not on the record7 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database
Field Shown What the sources say
Core
Author (L.) Hill No source recorded
Source not recorded
Bibliography Veg. Syst. 10: 1 (1765) No source recorded
Source not recorded
Phylum Tracheophyta No source recorded
Source not recorded
Rank species No source recorded
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Status accepted No source recorded
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Year 1765 No source recorded
Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name Spring crocus No source recorded
Source not recorded
Observations Alps to W. Balkan Pen. No source recorded
Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height 13 cm
  • 12.5 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 21 observations · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 71, 76, 116, 164, 500, 807, 898, 918
Differs from sources
Biological type geophyte
  • geophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 10 observations · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 4, 25, 71, 164, 174, 500, 918
Sourced
Flower color white, yellow Sourced
Foliage texture medium Sourced
Fruit shape capsule Sourced
Maximum height empty No source recorded
1 earlier or rejected value
  • Rejected 10.5 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 71, 76, 116, 164, 500, 807, 898, 918 below the average height (13 cm) of the same record
Not on the record
Sexuality hermaphrodite Sourced
Phenology
Bloom months feb, mar
1 earlier or rejected value
Sourced
Duration perennial
  • perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 8 observations · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 4, 25, 71, 164, 818, 918
Sourced
Ecology
Ground humidity empty
  • 5 / 12 · fresh, never flooded (mesohydric) · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 242
Not on the record
Light empty
  • 7 / 9 · half-light to light · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 489
Not on the record
Nitrogen fixation None Sourced
Soil nutriments empty
  • 4 / 9 · rather poor (meso-oligotrophic) · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 489
Not on the record
Soil salinity 0 / 9 · absent from saline soils
  • 0 / 9 · absent from saline soils · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09
    TRY 7.0 datasets 242, 489
Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth 9 cm Sourced
Usda legacy
C n ratio empty Not on the record
Other
Soil ph indicator — Not on the record
Temperature indicator — Not on the record