Family: Iridaceae
Scientific Name: Crocus tommasinianus Whitewell Purple
Common Name: Whitewell Purple Crocus
Description | A cultivar of the Snow Crocus. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizoms, etc. |
Hardiness Zone | 5 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average, well drained |
Flowers | goblet-shaped, light and dark purple, close at night and during cold weather, stigmas bright yellow, end of March early April in Zone #5 |
Leaves | grass-like, with a silver streak |
Stems | corms |
Maintenance | plant 3-4 inches deep in groups of 3,5 or 7, will natiralize |
Propagation | self seeds, division of corms |
Native Site | Bulgaria |
Misc Facts | Species "tommasinianus" named after the botanist Muzio G. Spirito de Tommasini (1794-1879). |
Notes & Reference | #179-Bulbs (Time Life Books), #232-The Plant Finders Guide to Early Bulbs (Rod Leeds) |
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