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Scattered and rare throughout the UK. It is widely grown and probably under-recorded. Habitat includes: gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards etc. Growing habit: Cormous Perennial. Height: Up to 10 cm. Flowers: February.

Stace 4:

Crocus sieberi J. Gay - Sieber's Crocus.

Corm-covering fibrous; leaves mostly 1.5-2mm wide; perianth white to pale mauve, with tube paler or darker, with yellow, glabrous throat; (2n=22). Neophyte-survivor; persistent in rough grassland and a churchyard; scattered in Britain North to Moray; Balkans.

Key:

• Throat of corolla yellow; spathe 0; bracts 2, white
• Corm with covering splitting vertically, not horizontally, becoming fibrous and reticulated; corolla not darker-veined or -striped on outside

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