The most variable population of this beautiful crocus which is growing wild together with C. gembosii (yellow blooming species of C. chrysanthus allie) and, what is quite unusual - freely hybridize with it and progeny is fertile. So I can't exclude that between offered plants will be some with hidden genes of C. gembosii in its genome. Anthers not rarely has grayish or even blackish connective. It is one of parents for my most beautiful hybrids.

Another population of this variable species having wide distribution area and so each population is something different. As others it is good grower in garden and in alpine house.

Very attractive species, recognisable from first look by its very vivid bright lilac inside and striped outside flowers with red stigma. Our stock raised from 2 seedlings grown from 5 seeds received from its homeland – Island of Corsica. We offer third generation from this original introduction.

Light and in same time very bright seedling (#21-01) of true Crocus cvijicii selected by me from open pollinated seedlings and I can't exclude some presence of C. veluchensis genes in it, explaining its brightness. I regard it as one of the best crocus seedlings raised and named by me. Stock very limited but it is good grower and increaser. I plant it in more acid soil than most of other crocuses.

This tiny species from Cyprus belongs to my favourites for its large bright reddish orange throat and blackish purple “tongue” over the outer base of the deep violet-blue flower segments. A small plant and naturally very small corms, but regardless of size - blooms very abundantly. Not very hardy, therefore protection during winter spells is very recommended.

In general C. dalmaticus is fairly similar to some forms of C. atticus, only the backs of its outer segments are paler, with a buff or silvery shading, and also its leaves are narrower. The style in C. dalmaticus is fairly slender and deeply trilobed, whereas in C. atticus it has a frilly appearance. The true species is easy to grow both in the open garden and in the greenhouse. It increases fast by splitting and abundantly sets seed. It does not like too dry conditions in summer, so it is better to take the pots out of the greenhouse during the rest period.

Crocus danfordiae is quite unique between crocuses - it is the single species where you can find individuals with white, yellow and blue coloured flowers what alone allows to suspect that there are hidden several different species. In addition - looking on distribution map in Flora of Turkey we can see 2 large separated regions - on each side of Anatolian Diagonal. In last years already several new species were separated from this complex. Here I'm offering few samples which are regarded as true Crocus danfordiae sensu its author George Maw.

Very special form of variable C. danfordiae with tiny, deep yellow flowers, distinctly flushed greyish on outer segments outside. Limited stock.

C. danfordiae is the single crocus species where under the same name are joined plants with bluish, whitish and yellow colour. Flowers are very tiny, with perianth segments only up to 2 cm long, in this stock they are light blue. Collected on Dokuzdolanbac gec. (on map Demirci gec.), at altitude1890 m.

This stock was collected something South from Tokat in E Turkey - if other observed East populations are located quite closely, this one is distant and has comparatively darker yellow flowers.

Quite recently were checked DNA of a lot of crocus populations regarded by B. Mathew as Crocus reticulatus. This research found that under this name were joyned several species regarded by former botanists as different and several new were discovered, too. This one is one of those new "reticulatas" from Azov Steppe, now turned to mine fields separating Ukraina from its teritories in East (Doneck etc.) at present occupied by Russia. So there are no possibilities to get additional material. Only few small stocks are now in cultivation and mine stock is very limited, too.

Very fine, pale rose-lilac segments inside, whilst the outside is cream. There can be indistinct, thin purple feathering on segments outside, more on the outer segments. Throat is yellow. Quite distinct from the normal forms in cultivation offered by Dutch nurseries and free of the virus that afflicts many of them. The stock comes from Island of Elba.

This population where all individuals had more or less expressed purple striping over back of flower segments I found in Turkey when I was alone driving from Denizli to Mugla in clearings under power-line. Unusual and special! Limited stock.

Chios forms in general are very similar to the Turkish plants but quite often has dark coloured stigmatic branches adding additional beauty. But my plants are not sorted by colour of stigma, so it is your luck to get the best ones.

Together with C. thirkeanus and C. bozdagensis it is crocus with the brightest yellow even something orange-yellow flowers, but contrary to its relatives it makes something larger corms with different tunics and isn’t stoloniferous. The stock grown at present in cultivation under this name comes from SW Turkey, Gok Tepe N of Mugla and was originally collected by Jim Archibald. It will not be great surprise if it will receive proper name, and typical C. gargaricus from NW Turkey, Mt. Kaz Dağı, seem not to be in cultivation more. Unfortunately I didn't succeed in search for typical C. gargaricus from Mt. Gargarus in NW Turkey and can't compare them, but this research was performed by Turkish botanist Osman Erol and in Gatersleben Institute (Germany).

Close relative to C. adamii from Armenia but almost always with distinctly striped segments outside. Some botanists regard it as conspecific with the last, but Harpke, Kerndorff and Pasche found it sufficiently different to keep as true species. My stock is collected just at locus classicus on yaila overtopping Geghart monastery of which it is named.

One of the most unusual and variable crocuses from large complex of so named “C. chrysanthus” from near Akseki in Turkey. Flowers extremely variable, large, basically yellow but as it easily hybridizes with neighboring C. concinnus (mawii ?) between offered plants can be individuals with different back colour, blackish anthers etc. Each seedling could be different.

Crocus gembosii in nature is growing side by side with C. concinnus on steep slope. Blooming of yellow C. gembosii follows just snow melting but lower by slope comes blue flowering C. concinnus. Between both is quite wide border-zone where plenty of hybrids between both species occur. Unusual is that those hybrids are fertile, so there side by side is growing various generations of all possible and even incredible colour combinations. I selected more than 100 beautiful hybrids, both from nature and my own seedlings, which now goes through testing and comparing. I'm offering here the first selected clones.

Flowers deep yellow with dark bronze-brown flushed or speckled segments outside. Quite often flowers are semi-double. Named after my first grandaughter.

This selection from Crocus gembosii and C. concinnus hybrids was named by my friend and longtime travel partner Vaclav Jošt from Czech Republic. We together researched Gembos Yaila looking for most unusual colour combinations made by Mother Nature.

This hybrid by colour is closer to C. concinnus, although came from hand-pollinated seedlings of C. gembosii, confirming that between yellow blooming individuals are hidden plants with blue genes in progeny. Named after my granddaughter.

This is the first selection from natural hybrids between those two species - the best increaser by splitting, It got number 17-2-ex-ex. Stock very limited.

Hybrid of exceptional beauty having dark brownish purple mid-vein on segments outside and blackish toned connective of anthers.

Flowers very large brightest yellow, even with an orange tint, very rarely nicely creamy, sweetly scented. Still a great rarity, although not very difficult in the garden. Possibly better to grow without annual lifting. Blooms late. Taxonomical status is unclear - it is very different from type Crocus cvijicii growing in North Macedonia. Plants from another Greek population at very West (Grammos Mountains) will be soon published (not by me) as Crocus gramensis. Looks very similar to it, and could be even identical - then name will be changed. This one comes from Vermio Mountain ridge.

Although this species is named after “bad smell” of its flowers, I never sensed this and identified by leaf features which separate it from similar C. vitellinus. Flowers are deep yellow with a distinct “waist’ but in the sun opens widely. The inside pure yellow, the outside very variable - from grey suffusion to dark purple stripes, each plant is different. S Turkey. Needs a dry summer rest.

One of three new species of spring blooming crocuses found by me during my first Iranian trip and named after my wife Guna. In nature its corms are situated very deep in soil which at blooming time is extremely wet (over-flooded) but later becomes dry and hard.

Very recently published species from large group of yellow crocuses with annulate corm tunics. Even picking up its corm - your fingers immediately will tell you - it is different because unlike usual hard tunics of all other so named "chrysanthus" crocuses its corm tunics are thin, papery. Flowers are bright yellow. Known from only one but large population near Kaan gec. where it is growing together with blue C. kangalensis.

Flowers purple with deep purple tips, variable, very large. Collected in E Carpathians (W Ukraine) on mountain pass Lizja and it perfectly naturalizes here in slightly shaded spots, even became as some kind of beautiful weed in former Janis' nursery where it was self-sowing in passes between crocus beds.

Seedling from Carpathian Wonder resulted into unpredictable colour - instead of white based bicoloured, came out one of the darkest purple forms. Excellent grower, tolerant to shade and producing seedlings even outside of bed where part of its stock was planted.

Another seedling from Carpathian Wonder with silvery blue shade and less contrasting darker mark at segments tips.

Another very beautiful seedling raised by German crocus grower Dirk Schnabel.

This seedling from ‘Carpathian Wonder’ was raised by Estonian bulb lower Taavi Tuulik and was found as self-sown seedling in his garden on Hiumaa Island.

The most unusual selfsawn seedling of 'Carpathian Wonder' found in his garden by Estonian teacher Taavi Tuulik on Hiumaa Island.

A close relative of C. reticulatus. Its species status recently was confirmed by DNA researches in Gatersleben Institute (Germany). Both are easy separable as C. hittiticus has black anthers. Flowers are lighter or darker lilac with more or less prominent dark stripes on the back of outer segments. Needs hot and dry summer and quite often blooming starts already in winter. Sometimes already at very end of November, so may be must be reclassified as autumn blooming species?

Beautiful and easy in gardens species from Italy and as a rule very strikingly coloured. Flowers outside is pale lilac, whitish or buff with more or less conspicuous deep purple stripes, inside bright lilac-purple.

This excellent Iranian crocus named after British traveller John Ingham (he was the first who spotted it in the wild) was described only after printing of my monograph "The World of Crocuses" and so it is not included there. I'm still growing it only in pots although it come from quite high altitudes and could be growable in open garden, too. Very limited stock!

Although Crocus ionopharynx was described as having black anthers it is not always the case. Sample HKEP-0304 (sent to me by Erich) has such a light grey tinge on the connectives that it is perceivable only after careful checking. Very important for identification is the purple colour deep in the throat, sometimes visible only in dissected flowers. The authors characterise the flowers as quite uniform in colour, any distinct striping and feathering on the outside observable only in a few specimens. In its typical (and best) forms with very dark outer basal blotches Crocus ionopharynx is very ornamental and with me it is a good grower in the greenhouse. It well sets seed and increases by splitting of the corms. According to I. Sözen, it does not like chalky soils and is tolerant of summer rains, but I keep it in greenhousre all the year round and grow in my standart mix..

This is crocus from Iranian Kurdistan, collected at several localities in vicinity of locus classicus and by flower quite similar, but other features still I didn't checked, so it is possible that some other still unknown species hides under this name, but this not makes it less beautiful. Limited stock!

This crocus was found along road from Saquez to Marivan on field covered with Anemone flowers - of course, at this time crocus was out of flowers, When it bloomed in my collection it something resembled Crocus iranicus, but not completely. Quite variable in flower colour. Up to now I simply hadn't time for more detailed observations on it.

Another crocus species which something resembles Crocus iranicus and was found on the highest pass along road from Saquez to Marivan and is located something closer to locus classicus of C. pseudoiranicus than to locus classicus of C. iranicus. Is it one or another - I'm not sure, may be even something else.

Not so long ago under name isauricus were grown a lot of different species. Only quite recently Kerndorff and Pasche after careful comparing of herbariums, literature data found that true isauricus comes from some mountains around Taskent in S Turkey. I have two something different stocks from closely situated populations which well respond to data given by HKEP. The flowers of both samples have the cup-shape considered typical of the true plant. Parallely this problem was researched by Osman Erol, who regarded as typical "isauricus" plant published by Kerndorff and Pasche as C. concinnus, but it has much more slender flower segments, so I follow here HKEP's decision.

A nice very late blooming “species” of hybrid origin with tiny white flowers. Its hybrid status was confirmed by genetic research. Although now very rarely offered, it is very beautiful and a good grower prolonging the season.

Crocus kangalensis was published by Kerndorff & Pasche only few years ago, unfortunately the data about locality from where it was described is given very approximately. Pity, but most of new species published by both German researchers are characterized by observations of single population, so they not always characterizes all spectrum of variability. Plants offered here are collected near Kangal and are slightly different in some features from plants described by HKEP. The main difference is in colour of flower tube which in my stock is darker striped, but according HKEP must be light. But I’m sure that mine stock belongs to the same species,

The several years in cultivation have shown that C. katrancensis is easy in pots, if kept in the greenhouse the entire time, and it very well increases both from seed and by corm splitting. In flower colour it is very variable, but the darker coloured stripes or feathering are always located solely in the middle of the flower segments. I have not tried the species outside. In its habitat the summers are hot and dry.

This stock contains open pollinated seedlings from plants originally collected at Agalik, near Samarkand in Uzbekistan. Contrary to more southern populations this one is extremely variable. Very early, flowers large, celandine-yellow with variously slightly brown striped or stippled back of outer petals.

This was selected by my Lithuanian friend Augis Dambrauskas and has quite unusual greenish flush over segments outside and prominent something dirty green segments outside base over dark bluish flower tube.

The earliest, with starry bright yellow flowers and a brown throat. Very beautiful and the most vigorous of my selections. Has survived outside even in the hardiest of winters when most crocuses have perished or seriously suffered.

One of my last selections from open pollinated seedlings of C. korolkowii with beautifully orange shaded deep yellow flowers and diffused orange throat.

Crocus kosaninii is easily distinguishable from other related species by its yellow throat and yellow filaments. Flowers are quite uniform, at least in the introduced stocks. Crocus kosaninii is free flowering and well sets seed. It grows freely outside and is quite hardy though during that most severe winter I almost completely lost my stock, survived only very few corms. This species does not need a hot and dry storage during the summer months but it seems that it prefer more acid substrate.

C. leichtlinii is still rarely cultivated and can be found only in a few collections. In the wild it grows in a harsh environment with very cold winters and hot and dry summers, thus it is suitable only for pots under cover. But it very well sets seed and increases satisfactorily by corm splitting, so it is worth of wider cultivation.

Another new species described by Kerndorff and Pasche some time ago but rarely offered. Main feature separating it from others is white style and by my observations it didn't hybridize with other species, because its seedlings always are true to name. My stock is seed-raised from initial 2 corms which I got from Erich Pasche, Very limited stock.

This stock is practically identical with the crocus published by Kerndorff & Pasche as Crocus malatyensis. My stock was collected not very far away from type locality (closer to Malatya) and morphologically is very similar, only the anthers in my plants are occasionally with black connectives. Even genetically both stocks are very similar - is it sufficient to regard them as different? I do not know. At least flowers of both generally are inseparable and black colour in anthers occasionally appear in many Turkish species of this region.

Locality where this crocus was collected lies not far from Gembos Yaila where C. concinnus is growing, but I can't separate it from sample sent to me by Erich Pasche as Crocus mawii. In any case both species are very similar and differences between them is very subtle. If I would found them, I would regard them as conspecific, but offering them I follow viewpoint of their authors - Erich Pasche and Helmut Kerndorff.

This nice crocus was discovered by HKEP not far from Gundogmus in Turkey. It is quite variable in flower colour and I found semi-albino of it growing together with yellow C. henrikii. I offer here plants from type gathering sent to me by Erich Pasche.

This species by flowers something resembles more widely known C. reticulatus. In pots it fares very well and even the forms collected in the neighbourhood of C. hittiticus never bloom in December or January, as is quite often the case with the latter. In the greenhouse it well sets seed and increases satisfactorily by corm splitting. I keep the pots during the summer in the greenhouse for the summers in its homeland are very dry and hot.

It is one of the latest crocuses to bloom in the garden; with me in some seasons it bloomed even in mid-May. Flower colour is very variable from light lilac to very deep, even blackish purple.

This crocus was collected wild already in 1988 by Henrik Zetterlund from Gothenburg BG and according that times taxonomy named as "C. danfordiae". Later HKEP separated from this complex plants with white stigma as C. minutus and such stigma has this sample, too, so I relabeled it as C. minutus, although in the original description there were mentioned only blue and white coloured plants. Its area lies something out of C. minutus sensu HKEP area, but not very far. Is it different species or not - I can't decide at present. Flower colour depends from season - in some year they are even deep yellow, but in another - only pale creamy.

Crocus mouradii is correct name for plant earlier known as subsp. dissectus of C. flavus. So far I have tried it only in pots and most likely it needs a deeper planting than the majority of species, because in nature its corms lie very deep in the soil. In summer it requires dry conditions, so I keep the pots in the greenhouse all the year round.

Most distinct and most beautiful between all species allied around so named C. chrysanthus (where were included genetically even unrelated species). Main feature separating it from all others is its long, black anthers. Only, very very few are offered, so price is so high.

Only recently officially published C. munzurense comes from rebelling Kurdistan, region now practically closed for foreigners. In cultivation it have proven to be extremely good grower and excellently increase by corm splitting and cormlets. The small sample from the type gathering, acquired in 2007, has now bulked up to four pots. It readily set seed, too. I keep the pots with C. munzurense in the greenhouse all the year round.

This crocus found by Henrik Zetterlund in 1990 looks something similar to typical Crocus munzurense although is collected SE from Tunceli in region not more achievable due Kurdish revolution. It makes large cormlets at mother bulbs base and is stoloniferous, what is not common between annulate spring blooming crocuses. Good grower and increaser. Most likely need proper name.

In 1990, when the Munzur Dağları was visited by the KPPZ expedition, it was a peaceful touristic region with no restrictions as to the entrance into the mountains along the side roads. Some years later the Kurdish revolt against the discrimination and suppression of their culture started and everything dramatically changed. So it is impossible to revisit the region for more detailed observations of crocuses grown there. This, very special looking gathering I'm still keeping under label "cf. munzurense" although it is very possible that it will need proper name.

Our team were long searching for this very special Crocus species of exceptional beauty and finally found it at two localities far out of area where it was supposed to grow according original publication by HKEP. It has perfect flower form and shining blackish-blue anthers with exceptionally long basal lobes and longer filaments. Very few to offer.

In 2014 a wide geographical range of the Crocus vernus complex was studied. As a result there are some newly named species and the re-emergence of many old names, formerly and incorrectly lumped as synonyms under the very broad umbrella name of “Crocus vernus”. C. neapolitanus is the name applied for diploid plants (2n =8) distributed in SE France, Italy, SW Austria and Slovenia with slender, deep purple flowers with darker tips to the petals. This is a truly lovely little plant – the mountain representative of the Crocus vernus complex and needs at least vernally more watering than most of species..

Morphologically this species from N Italy is similar to Crocus neapolitanus and C. ilvensis although well distinguishable by DNA. I have C. neglectus for some years already but previously I grew it as C. vernus and renamed my stocks only recently in accordance with the places of their origin. Like all the species that are related to the former Crocus vernus, C. neglectus is easy in gardens. It well sets seed and the pots during the summer are brought outside of the greenhouse thus providing cooler conditions.

This makes large clusters of lilac suffused or striped white and fragrant flowers early in the season, Feb-Mar. Species is growing wild on both sides of Mediterranean - in Morocco and Spain. Are they identical (same species) I'm not sure, but not working on them at present. Morocco plants are more uniform, light toned with some suffusion or striping on segments outside.

This sample was collected near Travenqiue in Spain and is more variable, in general darker with more prominent outside markings, some could be even more to lilac side of segment colour but some also whitish. I regard them as something more beautiful, but by other features they are quite similar to plants from Morocco.

This species belongs to large group related to C. sieberi, atticus, sublimis etc., but is growing wild at high altitudes on Taygetos Mountains in S Peloponnese, Greece. Flowers are darker or lighter lilac but most prominent is very variable throat colour. Crocus nivalis can be separated from its relatives as it lacks any hairs in the throat and has a finely fibrous netted tunic.

Crocus nubigena from the moment of its discovery and first description was a somewhat enigmatic plant. Although it was described from plants reported as collected at Mt. Gargarus, I didn’t find any herbaria collected wild. Regardless of quite poor available data, it was possible to conclude that plants growing wild near Bergamo and on Lesvos Island most precisely respond to original publication, and here are offered just stock originally collected on Lesvos Island with flowers lighter or darker blue and with very prominent black anthers with long basal lobes.

Masses of bright deep golden yellow flowers among wide spreading leaves, like a miniature C. flavus version. Collected in Greece

Crocus orphei is superficially quite similar to C. reticulatus and other closely related species with blue flowers. Regardless of its very isolated location, until very recently it was regarded as C. reticulatus but in 2014 it was described as a new species separable from its allies by the throat colour, the width of the corm fibers and some other morphological features. It is easy to grow in the open garden and well sets seed without additional pollination. Pot grown plants during the summer better to bring outside to not subject the corms to extreme heat.

The taxonomical status of this species still is something uncertain. Some botanists (A. Guner) regard it as albino form of C. chrysanthus. From a gardener’s viewpoint C. pallidus is easy to grow both in the open garden and in the greenhouse. It perfectly sets seed (hand-pollination is required to ensure clean stocks!) and excellently increases by corm splitting. It is rather immune to heat spells so can either stay in the greenhouse or be brought outside.

Large silvery soft violet-blue flowers with a small golden sometimes rimmed white throat and yellow anthers with a prominent 3-branched red-orange style. The exterior of the flowers is also slightly silvery. I still haven’t tried it outside but in pots it isn’t difficult. Stock was raised up from type gathering kindly shared with me by Erich Pasche. Recently Turkish botanists published research that it is identical with C. adanensis and match inside its variability.

This is the name (x paulinae) for the natural hybrid between Crocus abantensis and ancyrensis discovered in Turkey. The flowers are large and have a ground colour of yellow gradually changing to a rich burnished bronze, sometimes infused with chestnut tones which show through, throat is deep yellow. A remarkable fusion of both parents - yellow and blue. A very decorative plant, named in honour of Pauline M. Dean a botanical artist who has illustrated many of the newer Crocus discoveries. Hybridization happened several times, so plants are variable in colour.

I repeated the natural cross on my plants. As seed parent I took the very dark violet-blue form of C. abantensis, pollen parent was C. ancyrensis cytotype I, in nature growing side by side with C. abantensis. In result I got very uniform sterile seedlings of much darker colour, which I decided to name after my granddaughter Paula.

Flowers white with a golden yellow throat. Blue forms are more often cultivated though are very rare in the wild and only recently rediscovered and renamed as C. yalovensis. White forms are rarely obtainable, although common in nature. Both are quite easy to grow in pots or in garden. Blooms very early in season.

It is one of the newest Crocus species published by me only in 2023, although I regarded it as very special new taxa for long before. After careful research with help of Paul Christian, who was one of founders of this crocus alongside with Jim Archibald, was deciphered its wild locality on Mt. Parnassos. It has especially thin, even silky corm tunics allowing immediately to separate it from allied species of sieberi-atticus group.

Provisionally I named this beauty from Iranian Kurdistan highlands as "Crocus iranicus" but further observations confirmed that it belongs to new, earlier unpublished species. Repeated visit to its locus classicus allowed to get additional material resulted in description and naming of new species. It something resembles C. iranicus so got name - pseudoiranicus what means "false iranicus". Very limited stock.

Flowers from striped to almost pure white with a narrow purplish tongue on the outer base of the flower segments. The filaments are very short and anthers distinctly black prior to the dehiscence (KPPZ-108). A distinct carnation-clove scent.

Flowers rich bluish violet, somewhat darker at the base with a large deep yellow zone in the centre. Here I’m offering stock originally collected by Chris Brickell and Brian Mathew in prov. Bursa, Ulu-Dag, at altitude of 1800m in 1985. Flowers in this stock are rich bluish violet, somewhat darker at the base with a large deep yellow zone in the centre.

The ground colour is pale violet flecked all over the outside with darker dots, contrasting well with the bright yellow anthers. Easy to grow and increases well by very small offset cormlets but rarely seen in cultivation although it is very decorative. From Isparta Province in S Turkey.

Up to last Bulgarian spring blooming bluish crocus with annulate tunics was named as "C. adamii" what of course was not true, because Crocus adamii is growing only in Caucasus mountains. Quite recently this was confirmed when group of botanists described annulate crocus from adjacent Serbia as C. randjeloviciorum. Both populations - Serbian and Bulgarian are very close - actually on both sides of border and when I compared them - turned that they are of same species. I'm offering plants collected on Bulgarian side of border.

It is another new-comer from Iran which I found during my first trip there and named after famous explorer of Iranian flora - Reinhard Fritsch, author of two marvellous books on Iranian and Central Asian Alliums. In cultivation Crocus reinhardii proved to be a good grower, although I have tried it only in pots. It well sets seed and increases by splitting. The species seems to be quite hardy and didn’t suffer in the winter when C. gunae (see) barely survived. In summer I keep the pots in the greenhouse.

This is one of the most spectacular crocuses with flowers that open widely like bright stars. Usually lilac, but the offered stock from S Russia varies greatly from almost whitish to brightest lilac. Easy and hardy in the garden.

This beautiful tiny crocus from C. biflorus alliance was just recently described by me as a new species. Actually it was known for long but erroneously identified with C. biflorus, although this plant from Rhodos Island in Greece in most cases has grey or even black halves of anthers. There are other features separating both but about those you can read in International Rock Gardener # 64 - internet Journal of Scottish Rock Garden Club.

One of the most beautiful spring blooming crocus with annulate corm tunics discovered parallely by Herndorff & Pasche team and by me and Turkish botanists, but published by HKEP a pair of months before us. Its flowers are very bright and it is perfectly growing in greenhouse, but I didn't tested it in outside garden. Known from few localities NE of Alanya, it is still practically unknown in collections.

Crocus rujanensis in outer appearance looks something similar to C. dalmaticus and C. sublimis and differs from the two in a combination of characters rather than in one distinct feature. All my samples of it were collected at locus classicus on Rujan Planina, so they undoubtedly are correctly named. In my garden Crocus rujanensis is less vigorous than its closest relatives, most likely due to the lower altitudes where it occurs in wild; it seems that our winters are somewhat too harsh for it, but in a milder climate it is an excellent garden plant – well sets seed and is a good increaser by corm splitting.

This tiny crocus of exceptional beauty was found by my Ukrainian friend Dimitri Zubov who named it after me. I three times visited Karpathos Island where it is growing wild in search for it but without results. It is of perfect form and quite variable in colour - from white with yellow flower segments outside through different lilac shades to light violet with deep purple striping over segments outside. Anthers almost invariably has prominent black connective, rarely as thin black edges and only in one individual they were without black. Very few corms available.

I only very recently named this very specially looking crocus collected without flowers during several trips to NE Turkey. Every spring I immediately noted start of its blooming even from a distance. In cultivation C. sakaltutanensis has proved to be easy, well sets seed and multiplies by corm splitting. It is grown only in pots in the greenhouse, stays there all the time, because needs hot and dry summers, like in its homeland.

In cultivation it is not difficult, well sets seed and increases by corm splitting. During the 8 years the stock from the original 10 corms has bulked up to around 50 flowering-size corms and lots of smaller ones. Of course, it grows only in the greenhouse and every spring is carefully hand pollinated to get true seeds. Pots are kept in the greenhouse all year round.

Just recently named a new species. Flowers are medium to light blue with a more or less striped back of the outer tepals. Sometimes the stripes can be short, only at the base. The inner base deep yellow. From S end of the Tahtali mountain ridge in central Turkey.

I was growing Crocus seisumsiana for many years, but only in spring 2017 I succeed to visit its wild populations at blooming time to make detailed and correct description of it according to so named “Kerndorff rules”, to avoid critics about incorrect data. It is named after my friend and very longtime travel partner in Central Asia and in Turkey. It is something similar to Crocus nubigena but is easily separable from it just by the colour of the anthers and tooth on basal rings.

This Cretan, high mountainous species with very variable flowers, on the outside stippled and finely striped violet, inside purest white with a deep golden throat belongs to the nicest crocuses. It has the reputation of being tender and here I can grow it only under cover.

Beautiful selection from wild collected Crocus sieberi forms with light purple segments outside and shining white inside. Increase better than many other selections.

One of the darkest toned selections from plants originally collected on Omalos plain in Crete along ascend to Kallergi refugee.

Beautiful selection from Crocus sieberi population collected on Omalos Plain in Crete - abundantly blooming and well increasing by corm splitting.

Nice form of flower segments, outside dark purple, inside white with purple shading on outer segments and large deep orange throat on upper edge gradually changing to diffused golden rim.

Localities from where comes species published by HKEP usually are hidden and quite often even misleading. Having samples which morphologically approach to some of species published by them, but collected distantly from mentioned "locus classicus" is difficult to judge - is identification correct or not. This one is just such case - it seem that sample LST-177 looks as Crocus sivasensis, but it was collected 140 km from mentioned spot, what in mountainous regions is long distance. So I'm attaching "aff."to its name (seems - close to).

Amazing story about discovery of this beautiful crocus species you can read in my Monograph "The World of Crocuses". It was accidentally spotted by my Turkish friend Ibrahim Sozen after whom I later named it. When I stopped to picture some yellow crocus, he suddenly noted - Janis, you are sitting on another blue one. Although it was damaged by snow, checking its features in hotel, immediately became clear that new species is found.

Jim Archibald collected this crocus together with Norman Stevens, but regarded it as special form of C. crewei. When he shared with me his crocuses, I immediately found that this sample has several features well separating it from typical C. crewei, although in wild they are not located very far one from another. I decided to name this one after my very long-time friend and travel partner Norman Stevens. It is quite variable by colour and on pictures are shown most differently looking plants from side and with open flowers.

This is a spring-blooming crocus with black anthers from the C. biflorus complex growing in a very limited area in N Greece now mostly controlled by the militaries. Flowers are white or pale violet with prominent dark stripes on the sepal backs and a large and very dark yellow throat. Anthers variable - pure black or with a black connective, rarely yellow.

Crocus suaveolens replaces C. imperati southwards along the W coast of Italy and usually has somewhat smaller and paler-coloured flowers. There are small differences in the measurements regarding filaments and anthers but the main feature that separates the two species is the absence of the bracteole in C. suaveolens. Its nice and strong scent, highlighted in the name, makes up for the lack of brightness and the smaller size comparing with C. imperatii. Crocus suaveolens is easy in the garden, though it can suffer in harsh winters.

Flowers delicate lilac with large yellow throat surrounded by a wide white band. It originally was found in Peloponnesus on Mt. Chelmos (Greece) and belongs to the most beautiful garden crocuses.

This beautiful crocus was selected by famous German crocus grower Dirk Schnabel between his seedlings of Crocus sublimis. Interesting that practically identical seedling appeared also between mine seedlings of the same crocus. I think that pollen parent could be some of Crocus gargaricus species group or C. gramensis. They all usually are placed in my greenhouse side by side.

This recently described species we were growing as sp. nova for several years before it was described as C. taseliensis by Helmut Kerndorff and Erich Pasche. Usually with striped segments back, but sometimes speckled. The ground colour is white, the throat is large, yellow, the anthers has prominent black connective but can be plain yellow, too. Here I offer stock collected near Halkali vil., between Anamur and Ermenek. They looks something different from plants found on Moca gec. and may be belongs to different species, but data from original description and lacking of data about exact locality from where comes type C. taseliensis not allow to make some decision.

The name of Crocus tauri is well known to crocus growers for many years already. A crocus from the “biflorus” group under this name is being offered by several nurseries. It seems that it is a sterile cultivated clone. From where just comes true C. tauri was unknown and HKEP used one of their acquisitions from Malatya province for designation of new epitype for this species. Unfortunately there are some discrepancies between published locality and notes on different herbarium sheets, labelled by HKEP as C. tauri. Both their localities (as labeled on herbarium sheets as type locality) are in around 30 km distance, my stock was collected just in middle between them and differs from description of C. tauri generally by connective of anthers, which in my plants occasionally are with thin black edges. In any case this can be regarded as true species, having nothing common with usual commercial stocks.

Very distinctive from other species within the biflorus complex with erect silvery grey leaves and very long toothed rings of the corm tunic. Very different from subsp. adamii under which it is included in the marvellous monograph of Brian Mathew. Flowers large, violet blue striped or flushed on white ground, very variable. A true gem from Tschatir-Dag Yaila, Crimea. Another beauty gathered in last moment before Russia occupied Crimea.

Previously known as Crocus herbertii. An excellent form from Mt. Uludag in NW Turkey with bright orange flowers and a stoloniferous habit. If planted and left undisturbed for a few years then every spring it will flower in abundance and slowly expand occupying the entire spot but will not become a weed, looking like yellow flames bursting from the bare earth. It makes a stunning show growing with me under old apple tree in a humus-rich soil, flowering every year without attention. Naturally very small corms.

It is new species never before offered by anyone and described from Turkey in Europe where it is growing in Thracian region and could be found in adjacent Greece. Very limited stock.

True wild species from Dalmatian Coastal Range, Bosnia-Herzegovina, nr. Trebinje, where it is growing in maquis and on rocky meadows at alt. 425 m. Flowers quite variable in shade - inside lavender to violet, exterior mostly silvery grey. Seems that it will benefit from slightly acid substrate. Excellent also for naturalization in grass.

C. tommasinianus is very easy and one of the very common in gardens plant but mostly are grown pale lavender stocks. I’m offering few self sown seedlings found by John Grimshaw in his garden with very special flower colour. Some of those hybrids very recently got names according wishes of John.

Selfsawn seedling from John Grimshaw’s former garden with exceptionally beautiful colour combination. John forwarded it to RHS Crocus trial and after that donated stock to me. I regard it as one of the best "tommies". Now John decided to name it after his father as 'Peter Grimshaw'.

C. tommasinianus is very easy and one of the very common in gardens plant but mostly are grown pale lavender stocks. PIETA is one of whitish selections from this very popular species made by John Grimshaw. Good for naturalising and in appropriate conditions selfsowing, although seedlings are extremely variable in colour.

Another one of self-sown seedlings from Crocus tommasinianus found and selected by John Grimshaw in his garden and named according flower colour - pinkish lilac segments inside and marbled outside.

One of the most unusual species of crocuses growing wild on coastal rocks and meadows only slightly over sea-level where it gots ftrequent saltwater showers during strong storms. Known only from very few spots on Athos peninsula - monk state with very restricted access. Occasionally have blackish anthers. Very limited stock.

This one crocus was described long ago but up to last regarded as synonim name for C. reticulatus. Really both are sufficiently different to be regarded as separate species. C. variegatus is distributed in Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Bulgaria and has distinct yellow throat, whilst C. reticulatus comes from Caucasus and has much paler throat.

Marvelous species with very large flowers. Corms must be planted immediately after receiving. Doesn’t like drying out during the summer and seems that most variants prefer acid substrate. It was described from Mt. Velouchi (now Tymfristos) in Greece, but now under this name are grown several certainly different species covering large area from Bulgaria to Central Greece. Together with D. Zubov (Ukraine) I recently separated from this complex C. jostii, but local botanists still are working on this group, so I cancelled my activities in this dirrection. Hope those names soon will be published. At present I offer them according localities from where comes offered sample.

One of the brightest and largest blooming variants related to C. veluchensis sensu lato. Seem that it could be identical with better known forms from Serbia, collected by Arne Striid and Henrik Zetterlund already in 1988. Good grower and makes new roots before old ones died, but not suffer from replanting.

I got seeds of this crocus from Marcus Harvey, but it was poor grower with me, but in same time it was so special that I from the first day regarded it as a new, still unpublished species. This insisted me to visit the place N of Drama in Greek Macedonia from where it was reported by Marcus. I found it at high altitudes growing in dense turf in extremely acid soil. Now I'm growing it in Rhododendron mix improved with coarse sand and results immediately appeared. It likes cool and not too dry conditions.

Under name of Crocus veluchensis hides several different species. This one by colour something resembles C. bertiscensis and I'm offering it this year under name "Crocus cf. bertiscensis Kosovo" (see item # 166). Most likely after publishing research results about sieberi-cvijicii-veluchensis-dalmaticus-sublimis performed by local botanists, it will receive proper name. As most species from this group it likes more acid soil than other crocuses.

This variant of Crocus veluchensis sensu lato was collected at ski centrum on Mt. Voros, Kaimahtalan at altitudes 2130-2154 m; where it was growing in very dense, hard, peaty turf with soil pH 4.5-5 together with Crocus pelistericus but a little further from water although sometimes both were observed side by side.

This form was selected from plants originally collected in Serbia, W of Titovo-Uzice, in deep shade of deciduous woodland near Drina River at 950 m altitude in heavy clay over limestone covered with thick layer of leaf-litter. Flowers are pale bluish white, slightly striped darker and with faintly darker marked segment tips.

C. vernus now is the name officially applied for the crocus earlier known as C. albiflorus having small, mostly white flowers, but there are blue, bi-colored and striped individuals between them, too. It has wide area but this stock is grown from seeds collected at Jura Alps, near La Dole, at c. 1400m altitude

This one is one of the best selections from plants collected wild. Found in a seed lot originally collected at Delnice, on the border between Slovenia and Croatia. Special crocus with creamy white flowers a purple color on the outer petals hint is visible. The inner petals feature small, purple tops. Formerly known as C. vernus 'Purple Tips'

Researches done in Germany showed that small blooming spring crocus from Alps and neighboring Balkans, earlier regarded as C. albiflorus, correctly must be named as C. vernus. Here I offer very nice form growing wild in Slovenia on pastures at 350 m altitude.

This hybrid was made by my Lithuanian friend Eugenius Dambrauskas who pollinated dark blue C. vernus with pollen from white form of C. heuffelianus.

Flowers bright violet to lavender and white, always with distinct purple feathering on the exterior of the segments. A very vigorous and variable population from S France, dept. Var. Excellent grower, one of my favourites.

Broad-petalled, vivid yellow flowers each of which has a distinct orange zone in the throat around yellow anthers and a divided orange style. The flowers are marked lightly with bronze feathering outside. Crocus vitellinus is very similar to C. graveolens but is reported as very sweetly scented. The shape of the flowers can easily distinguish both species: C. vitellinus flowers are slender, funnel-shaped with no distinct waist and the segments are wider and usually rounded at the tips, unlike the narrow and pointed segments in C. graveolens. C. vitellinus usually has less numerous leaves which are wider. Easy and vigorous in the Western Europe gardens, but here growable only in pots.

I don't know is it pure albino of Crocus vitellinus or most likely some hybrid with another species. In any case it is beautiful very good grower and increases by corm splitting, but I never got seeds from this clone.

Flowers very nice something variable in colour - from purest white to white shaded lilac or light purplish on segments outside. Although slightly smaller than in other forms, flowers very abundantly. From near Jurjevo in Croatia.

This is one of my seedlings which is marked and pictured by everyone visitor of our nursery during Open Door days of spring crocuses, so unusual it is. I grew it up from seeds got by Alpine Garden Society's seed exchange labelled as "Crocus artvinensis". Really it has nothing common with this species and certainly is some OP hybrid of unknown parentage. Really very few only available.

This small light blue blooming quite recently described as subspecies crocus, but rised to species range by me has nice light blue flowers and is distributed in Čan province in NW Turkey where it is growing on vernally very wet meadows, so is suitable for outdoor growing here, too. Prefair something more acid soil than most of crocuses. At first I named it as C. violaceus, but then turned that such name already was used and so this crocus need new name. I decided to name it C. yalovensis after province where it is growing wild.

C. zetterlundii is very easy in cultivation and readily sets seed. Although I have not tried it in the open garden, judging by the conditions in its homeland, it might be a good grower, just like its distant neighbour C. abantensis, which even prefers and grows better in the garden than in greenhouse pots. It increases well by splitting but if you want to multiply C. zetterlundii from seed, isolation and controlled hand-pollination is essential, as it can hybridise with other species from the C. biflorus aggregate.

This American bulbous plant comes from Outer North Coast Ranges in California, where it is growing at altitude of. 1500 m. The pendant tubular flowers are in large umbels on up to 30-40 cm long stems often supported by grasses and shrubs. The striking deep crimson tubes with reflexed, pale green lobes and a white crown surrounding the stamens are unlike any other member of this genus. In wild it is growing on partially-shaded embankments in a mixed conifer/oak forest. Good grower here and suitable also for outer garden in milder climate if planted in sheltered spot against a warm fence.

By flower it something resembles Eranthis cilicica, main differences are hidden underground - its tubers more resembles Eranthis iranica, than Turkish E. cilicica tubers. It was found in Iranian Kurdistan, along road from Saquez to Iraq border, very far from area where E. cilicica is known to grow and recently was discovered by Turkish botanists also in E Turkey.

The Siberian ally of E. dens-canis flowering later and with much larger, bright cyclamen-purple flowers and yellow anthers all at the same level. Very beautiful! Planted under shrubs in half shade naturalizes.

Excellent variant of Erythronium sibiricum known only from limited area around its locus classicus. It was published by me as subspecies of E. sibiricum, but after checking of DNA its status was rised to species level by Russian botanists. The main difference between both are in colour of anthers: in E. sulevii they are black whilst in typical E. sibiricum, - yellow. Extremely rare and offered only by me. Very limited stock.

The genus Fessia was separated from Scilla by Spetha, who split scillas into many new/old genera. Not all of those "new" genera was accepted, but Fessia is one of those which was acknowledged by most of botanists and in Kew. The species of Fessia are distributed wild from Iran (inclusive Aserbaijan Talish) up to Pakistan and into former soviet Central Asian states - Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. More about Fessias you can read into International Rock Gardener (online journal of Scottish Rock Garden Club) following link http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2019May311559296345IRG113.pdf On the picture Fessia gorganica (not offered this year).

Although something similar to F. greilhuberi, both are easy separable, because Fessia hokenackeri goes in winter without leaves. New foliage sits below spikes of quite large, pendulous, reflexed blooms of light blue. A native of Caspian woodlands of Iran but well growing here in a light well-drained soil with some humus.

This Iranian "scilla" resembles the better-known Fessia gorganica. Its tepals are light blue with deep blue anthers. It was collected together with F. gorganica and for some time offered under this name before we found that there are several morphological features well separating both species. Iranian and Central Asian squills now are separated in own genus Fessia. Only Scilla persica was placed in another (new) genus Zagrosia,

Turkish species of Ficaria, collected near lake Abant in NW Turkey with very large flowers. Excellent grower both in garden (better in light shade) and in pots which during summer spells must be brought out of greenhouse

Nice Gymnospermium species, quite easy growing (sometimes self-seeding) easu to oidentify by its quite pale dark brown stem. Flowers deep yellow with greyish brown shading on the outside base of the sepals. This stock comes from Kara-Tag mountains in Central Asia and differs from plants growing in Varzob valley, Tajikistan, recently published as G. vitellinum although both are quite similar by overall view.

One of the earliest blooming Juno irises from Tajikistan which is very good grower here in garden. Excellent plant for pots as well and certain show-winner, but it don't like very hot temperatures in greenhouse. It is plant of high altitudes, so during hottest times pots must be brought outside. Very limited stock!

On attached picture you can see me between my daffodil field at Millennium when I was growing around 1500 cultivars and selected hybrids of daffodils on open field in my previous garden. Those days long ago passed away, all my daffodils in bulk were bought by 3 Dutch companies, who joined for this action. Long time I had no daffodils in my collection but then I was invited to take part in small group for travel to Spain and Portugal. I was interested in crocuses growing there, but by the way I collected some Narcissus species. I'm not specialist in their taxonomy, so in identification I follow my travel companions, famous daffodil growers and breeders - Brian Duncan, Sally Kington, Juan Andrés Varas and others. I warn, that my stocks are small, so only first customers could receive desired bulbs.

Very dwarf form of bulbocodium narcissus which in additional blooms here later than other bulbocodiums. It was collected in Spain, near Serra da Arrabida on roadside cleanings between rocks.

This form originally was collected in Portugal (19PTS-015) and was noted by me just for its greenish toned perianth segments. Few and most likely only for greenhouse.

Up to five, deep but bright golden flowers with a very strong scent, blooming in greenhouse from mid-March to April. In milder climates flowering freely also in garden where it is best in a fertile moist soil. Collected in Spain, between Cabra and Dona Mencia at alt. 556 m. Actually I don't know how to separate it from N. fernandesii and why one population got name of cordubensis, but other fernandesii from my colleagues in this trip. Sunny site with good drainage, lime or acid soils seem equally suitable in cultivation.

It is wild hybrid between Narcissus cantabricus and bulbocodium. Taller than cantabricus and with creamy shaded flowers - intermediate by colour between both parent species. As it is common in narcissus, the flower colour depends from temperature, so only in spring 2023 I noted that under name "N. cantabricus" earlier I offered this hybrid. All three were growing together at same spot and only few true cantabricus were collected between them. So - my former customers of N. cantabricus must change the name to much rarest narcissus hybrid-species.

One of the rarest narcissus wild hybrid (bulbocodium x fernandesii) in the world. In 2019 we visited small (less than half acre) rocky spot between large plowed field, where this fantastic hybrid was found forming large clumps. It was so good in increasing that I can now it offer although collected only one offset from two clumps. It was described and for the first time published in the same year - 2019 in little known Folia Botanica Extremadurensis vol 13(2).

This unique ornithogalum was for the first time offered only few years ago for significantly higher price, but everyone customer got instead of one ordered plant two plants. This species is completely selfsterile, so due very good bulb crop I doubled number of bulbs for each order to ensure further propagation by seeds. So this year I again reduced price. It still is not published and so name could be changed later, but it is very unique between other ornithogalums and according its discoverer Arnis Seisums most likely belongs even to new series.

Excellent abundantly blooming seedling from Oxalis adenophylla 'Purple Heart' from which it inherited purple center of leaflet rosette, making clump attractive even when it is out of flowers.

Better known as Scilla autumnalis but now separated into the genus Prospero. It is very variable in the wild. Not all forms are good growers. The Crimean plants belong to the best and earliest to bloom with medium-sized dense racemes with pinkish blue flowers.

This beautiful newcomer in Puschkinia "family": was discovered by me in Iranian Kurdistan in 2017 but published only after repeated visit to its locality in 2022 when good herbarium for holotype and all necessary morphological data were collected in situ. It has large white or slightly bluish shaded/striped flowers and is growing wild on grassy steep, vernally wet slope.

A gorgeous almost pure white new species of Puschkinia, earlier regarded as colour variation of P. peshmenii. P. kurdistanica has at base greenish blue toned flowers with tiny trace of blue-green on the midribs of the buds. Later flowers become more bluish toned. It is vigorous in growth, forming 20cm tall spikes, having long pedicels and is even more floriferous than P. peshmenii. Our team found this beauty during BATMAN expedition near Tatvan-Van road. Typical P. peshmenii with greenish coloured flowers (so named Rix form) was found in Hakkari province in very East Turkey, near Iranian border. More about this discovery you can read in online magazine International Rock Garden, 2019, August issue (#116) edited by Scottish Rock Garden Club.

This unusual Puschkinia was found by Dr. Arnis Seisums in Iran and from other species it is easy separable by its unusually wide leaves - their wides exceeds 3 cm, whilst in other maximum is 1.5 cm. Makes large bulbs, too.

Visually this new species of Puschkinia (should be published this summer after revisit to its locality) resembles P. adwayana from Iran but is growing very far to East in Central Turkey. Originally was found by Dr. Arnis Seisums, who collected its seeds and shared those with other members of our team already 20 years ago, but we never had time to work on it, although no one had doubt that it really is new species. Flowers mostly greenish creamy white but bluish shaded could occur between them. In wild grows in dense, spiky shrubs on steep slope together with Ornithogalum dipcadiflorum (another species which waits for its publication)

A wild collected stock of this well-known plant, slender, with bigger flowers and a far better arrangement of the raceme than in usually cultivated stocks, resembling a hyacinth, and of the darkest blue colour. From Mnt. Aragats, Armenia.

During my last visit to Armenia together with my late friend Zhirair Basmajyan on the cattle-pass just near Vanadzor city border I spotted very nice, bright soft white Puschkinia scilloides plant. I collected it and now it was multiplied up to numbers that few can be offered to other Puschkinia lowers.

Probably the largest of the Old World species and certainly the only with yellow flowers growing widely in S Europe, Aegean Islands, Turkey and reported even from Syria. It makes large yellow funnel-shaped flowers, and blooms in abundance, very early in the year and this stock is raised from plants originally collected in Antalya on field last time cultivated many years ago. Floriferous and long blooming sample.

A very elegant species with bright violet-blue flowers with a deep blue midrib and a small white centre nicely positioned on a purplish tinted stalk. Outer tepals are slightly rolled back. Easy in both - pots and the garden.

This nice Scilla has only one (occasionally two) bright violet-blue flowers per scape, but the larger number of scapes which can be up to 10 from a well-established bulb well compensates for the smaller number of flowers on each scape, making it very floriferous..

Numerous, up to 9, big, deep violet flowers on 15 cm stems. Its leaves are purple suffused and almost adpressed to the ground at flowering time, what gives the plant a charming appearance. One of my favourite scillas which most likely needs its own species name.

An excellent form of this beautiful sp. reported as collected in Taurus mnt. range, S Turkey and collected wild by Norman Stevens between Goksun and Sariz in Turkey.. It has numerous very long racemes with up to 10 flowers on each spike. One of the best bluebells.

I have this Turkish bluebell from 3 localities around Antalya and I intend to publish it as new species under name Scilla antalyensis. By key morphological features it something resembles Scilla longistylosa published by F. Speta from very W of Turkey (between Fethiye and Sögüt, growing also on Rhodos, Greece) having similarly long style. From surroundings of Antalya previously were known only plants with short style. Regardless of name, this is one of the most beautiful Scilla from S. bifolia group.

Recently described species from S. sibirica group with very light blue, slightly violet-shaded flowers on very short pedicels, distinct from others. In colour can compete only with S. winogradowii.

Common name of this wonderful Triteleia is “Fool’s Onion”. It makes dense globes of glistening white, bowl-shaped perianths with wide overlapping tepals forming up to 25 flowers in large, up to 7-8 cm in diameter flower heads on 20-30 cm long stems. Wonderfully fragrant, and a good cut flower. Like other Triteleias, hyacinthina is particularly well suited to partial shade, doing especially well under trees, in early spring needs much water, but later prefer dry conditions, usually provided by tree roots..

This vigorous species occurs along the coast of Northern and Central California from Humboldt to Monterey counties and is usually found in vernally wet habitats. The bowl-shaped flowers are white, often flushed purplish on the outside or with indigo stripes on the back or occasionally pale rose-purple. In the garden it needs a lot of water late in spring or it will go dormant without blooming. It quickly forms many-stemmed clumps in cultivation. Blooms in late spring and early summer, with stems often a foot or more tall. These carry many white blossoms on long stalks. These are fine subjects for rock gardens and as cut-flower, and perfectly feel in large pots. They thrive in full sun or light shade and any reasonably well drained soil. Once the leaves have withered, they need no further watering.